PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test whether sleep disturbance mediates the effect of pain on fatigue. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING Radiation therapy clinic, oncology ambulatory clinic, and inpatient oncology unit in an urban teaching hospital. SAMPLE 84 patients with cancer with multiple primary diagnoses who were experiencing pain. Fifty-three percent were female and 92% were Caucasian, with a...

In view of the large body of research demonstrating that optimism has beneficial effects on people’s well-being and health, one may assume that it also protects against fatigue. However, few studies have investigated the association between optimism and cancer-related fatigue in cancer patients, and the results are inconsistent. Thus our aim was to investigate if optimism is associated with sev...

OBJECTIVE To measure the levels of fatigue in the general population, and to examine how disease and sociodemographic factors influence fatigue. DESIGN Cross sectional questionnaire study in the Danish general population. SUBJECTS A random, age stratified sample of 1608 people aged 20-77 with an equal gender distribution (response rate 67%). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Five fatigue scales from ...

The activity questionnaire most frequently used in heart failure, the New York Heart Association Classification, does not correlate well with peak oxygen uptake. The correlation of this variable with other activity questionnaires was analyzed in 83 patients (69 with heart failure and 14 control patients), 61.5 11 years old, who were interviewed and classified according to the Canadian Cardiovas...

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the validity and reliability Turkish version Alarm Fatigue Questionnaire.Method: This used a methodological design sample 140 nurses working in intensive care units three hospitals Istanbul, Turkey. Data were collected with "Personal Information Form" "Alarm Scale". data analyzed at two stages involving adaptation confirmation. In process, four steps ...

This study protocol aims to explore the effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of a herbal medication, Gongjindan (GJD), in patients with chronic dizziness. This will be a prospective, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, clinical trial. Seventy-eight patients diagnosed with Meniere's disease, psychogenic dizziness, or dizziness of unknown cause will...

Fatigue-related changes in lifting kinematics may expose workers to undue injury risks. Early detection of accumulating fatigue offers the prospect of intervention strategies to mitigate such fatigue-related risks. In a first step towards this objective, this study investigated whether fatigue detection was accessible to visual perception and, if so, what was the key visual information required...

As a spatial selective attention-based brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigm, steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) BCI has the advantages of high information transfer rate, high tolerance to artifacts, and robust performance across users. However, its benefits come at the cost of mental load and fatigue occurring in the concentration on the visual stimuli. Noise, as a ubiquitous rando...

BACKGROUND To examine the role of psychological distress, negative life events, social support and lack of fitness (using breathlessness on exertion as a proxy) in the development of new onset fatigue in a primary care population. METHOD Adults between the ages of 18 and 45 years who were registered with five general practices in South East England were asked to complete a fatigue questionnai...

1) This study examined the ability of human subjects to match a force in their quadriceps muscle during fatigue. Twenty subjects (mean age: 23.4 yrs, mean height: 167.8 cm, mean weight, 62.6 kg) were enrolled in the experiment. In the force-matching task, the quadriceps muscle generated 50% of the MVIC (maximum voluntary isometric contraction) torque under visual control and then without visual...