PURPOSE Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms seen in patients with advanced cancer. It is known to influence the Quality of Life (QoL) of patients. This study examines the interrelationship of fatigue and QoL in patients with advanced cancer on palliative care. METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted in the outpatient clinic of the Department of Palliative Medicine from January...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate a mind-body medicine (MBM) program for its impact on persistent fatigue following breast cancer treatment. DESIGN Quasiexperimental. SETTING An urban community hospital and a health department in a semirural county, both in Maryland. SAMPLE 68 breast cancer survivors who were at least six months postadjuvant chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy and had a ba...

CONTEXT Fatigue is highly prevalent in populations with advanced illness and is often associated with depressed mood. The role of psychostimulant therapy in the treatment of these conditions remains ill defined. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the response of fatigue and depression in patients with advanced illness to titrated doses of methylphenidate (MP) as compared with placebo. METHODS In a rand...

Selected abstracts submitted to the 2nd International Cancer Fatigue Symposium: Putting the Pieces Together Hyatt Regency, Montreal, Quebec; October 3–4, 2010 The opinions expressed in the abstracts are those of the authors and are not to be construed as the opinion of the publisher (Multimed Inc.), the organizers of the 2nd International Cancer Fatigue Symposium, or the University of Alberta, ...

this paper reviews the current literature examining the pervasive symptom of fatigue experienced in three of the most common degenerative neurological conditions: multiple sclerosis (ms), parkinson’s disease (pd) and post-polio syndrome (pps). the existing literature can be considered under four headings definition and prevalence, type, cause, impact of fatigue. fatigue is a common symptom in d...

We investigated the effects of fatigue produced by timed maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) of the index finger of the right hand on performance in MVC and accurate cyclic force production tasks in right-handed young (Young group) and strength-matched elderly (Elderly group) participants. We hypothesized that, before fatigue, the Elderly group would show weaker force-stabilizing synergies and ...

This study focused on the life of women who are both mothers and nursing professionals, applying the method of life history. The goals were: to describe the every day life of these professionals; to identify the influence of the profession on these women and to analyze the perception of this reality based on their history of life. Data partial analysis showed that the profession interferes in w...

A self-rating scale was developed to measure the severity of fatigue. Two-hundred and seventy-four new registrations on a general practice list completed a 14-item fatigue scale. In addition, 100 consecutive attenders to a general practice completed the fatigue scale and the fatigue item of the revised Clinical Interview Schedule (CIS-R). These were compared by the application of Relative Opera...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) often complain of fatigue. To date, only a few studies in Western countries have focused on fatigue related to IBD, and fatigue has never been specifically studied in Asian IBD patients. The aim of the present study was to investigate the fatigue level and fatigue-related factors among Korean IBD patients. METHODS Patients in...