PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify symptom clusters that include urinary and erectile dysfunction among men treated for prostate cancer. DESIGN Secondary data analysis. SETTING University-affiliated urology clinic. SAMPLE Data collected on 402 men for a longitudinal prostate cancer quality-of-life study. METHODS Data were collected from an eight-month time point. Four analytic approaches we...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE The purpose was to evaluate a new self-reporting scale for assessment of mental fatigue and its usefulness in describing mental fatigue after neurological diseases and injuries. Mental fatigue is suggested to comprise a spectrum of items including sensory, emotional and cognitive symptoms. METHODS AND PROCEDURES Mental fatigue and related symptoms were measured with a self-a...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND In cancer patients, fatigue interferes with the individual's functioning and quality of life (QoL). We investigated the association between fatigue and the main QoL dimensions and mood states as well as the main sociodemographic and clinical variables. METHODS A total of 105 inpatients undergoing chemotherapy were administered the Revised Piper Fatigue Scale and the EORTC ...

BACKGROUND Fatigue and burnout are two concepts often linked in the literature. However, regardless of their commonalities they should be approached as distinct concepts. The current and ever-growing reforms regarding the delivery of nursing care in Cyprus, stress for the development of ways to prevent burnout and effectively manage fatigue that can result from working in stressful clinical env...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe women's representations of fatigue and fatigue-related coping efforts by women receiving chemotherapy. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SETTING Outpatient gynecologic oncology clinic. SAMPLE Women receiving chemotherapy for gynecologic cancers. Fifty-four women were recruited; 49 (91%) completed measures. This report focuses on the 27 women who identified ...

BACKGROUND Although some studies have found high rates of early childhood trauma in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), the role of early trauma in this condition remains controversial. METHODS This study examined the prevalence of early childhood trauma and its impact on daily fatigue and pain levels over a 14-day period in a sample of 90 carefully screened CFS patients using a diary method appr...

[Purpose] This study identified correlations among occupational stress, fatigue, and depression in call center employees in South Korea. [Subjects and Methods] This study consisted of 150 call center workers. A cross-sectional design was adopted. Tools including the Effort-Reward Imbalance, Checklist Individual Strength, and Depression scales were used to measure levels of stress, fatigue, and ...

Fatigue is a common complaint in modern society and highly prevalent in medical students. As fatigue has been associated with negative mood, increased irritability and reduced cognitive control, we proposed that fatigued students are more responsive to negative stimuli due to weaker, or less effective, cognitive control. The present study used fMRI to compare 26 chronically fatigued medical stu...

OBJECTIVE The present study was designed to test the hypotheses that response expectancies and emotional distress mediate the effects of an empirically validated presurgical hypnosis intervention on postsurgical side effects (i.e., pain, nausea, and fatigue). METHOD Women (n = 200) undergoing breast-conserving surgery (mean age = 48.50 years; 63% White, 15% Hispanic, 13% African American, and...

BACKGROUND Children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) require life-long glucocorticoid replacement and have daily intermittent hyper/hypocortisolemia and hyperandrogenemia. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is important for understanding the impact the disease and therapy have on physical, mental, emotional, and social functioning. Little is known about HRQL in CAH. We compared HRQL...