INTRODUCTION. The main goal of this work was to identify subgroups of patients with fibromyalgia (FM) by means of a frequently used clinical tool, the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ). METHODOLOGY. A total of 66 women diagnosed with FM participated in the study. Two subgroups of patients were identified by analysis of a hierarchical cluster of selected items from the FIQ (pain, fatigue, ...

Previous research using the model proposed by Davidson has shown that resting frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry can predict affective responses to aerobic exercise at moderate intensities. Specifically, greater relative left frontal activity has been shown to predict positive affect (i.e., energy) following exercise. The purpose of this study was to determine if resting frontal EE...

Mid-air gestures as a new form of human–computer interaction has wide range satisfaction factors, for which the primary and secondary relationships hierarchical between factors are unclear. By examining usability definitions, collecting questionnaires user interviews, 30 observed variables were obtained scale was developed. A total 310 valid collected, six latent summarized through factor analy...

INTRODUCTION Fatigue is one of the most frequent symptoms in patients with cancer. No adequate term in Spanish has been defined to describe the English concept of fatigue. AIM To identify the most suitable Spanish words that define the concept of fatigue and to check psychometric characteristics. METHOD Consensus with professional experts on Spanish words that best suit the English concept ...

AIMS This paper is a qualitative investigation that aims to investigate the lived experience of fatigue in patients with motor neurone disease-a progressive and fatal neurological condition. BACKGROUND Fatigue is a disabling symptom in motor neurone disease (MND) that affects a large number of patients. However, the term "fatigue" is in itself imprecise, as it remains a phenomenon without a w...

BACKGROUND in the primary prevention of disability among older adults it might be useful to identify individuals at high risk for functional decline before it occurs. OBJECTIVE to examine whether tiredness in daily activities is an independent determinant of onset of mobility disability at 1 1/2-year follow-up among non-disabled older men and women. DESIGN a prospective study with 1 1/2-yea...

BACKGROUND Fatigue or excessive tiredness of body or mind is a common presenting problem in general practice. OBJECTIVE This article provides a diagnostic model for the diagnosis of fatique in general practice. DISCUSSION Fatigue is not a diagnosis but rather a symptom. Fatigue is interchangeable with terms such as tiredness, weariness, loss of energy, listlessness and exhaustion. It can be...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Sleepiness is a key symptom in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and can be objectively assessed with a multiple sleep latency test (MSLT). We studied the terms that patients prefer to describe their symptoms-sleepiness, fatigue, tiredness, or lack of energy-and how these terms relate to objective findings. DESIGN Observational. SETTING University-based sleep laborato...

OBJECTIVES It is commonplace for people to complain about being tired. There have been actually few studies of tiredness in large general population samples, and where studies do exist, the measures often rely on external assessments. We use a diary-based method to overcome these limitations in a representative sample of U.S. residents. METHODS Data come from the 2010 American Time Use Survey...