Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Medically Unexplained Chronic Fatigue
Conditions
Keywords
Medically unexplained chronic fatigue, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Cognitive-behavior therapy, Self-management, Primary care, Nurses, Economic analysis, Cost effectiveness, One year follow-up
Brief summary
This study will evaluate, in a primary care setting, the effectiveness of a brief self-management behavioral treatment in patients with medically unexplained chronic fatigue. The hypothesis will be tested that fatigue self-management will yield improvements in fatigue,functioning, and distress in comparison to the two control conditions: standard medical care alone or standard medical care plus an attention control symptom monitoring condition.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCognitive-behavioral self-management
Graded activity, pacing, stress reduction, low effort pleasant activities, cognitive coping skills.
BEHAVIORALSymptom monitoring
Daily symptom via web diary
Sponsors
Stony Brook University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* diagnosis of unexplained chronic fatigue * diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome
Exclusion criteria
* medically explained fatigue * any psychosis or dementia
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Fatigue Severity Scale | 3 months, 6 months, 15 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Beck Anxiety Inventory | 3 months, 6 months, 15 months |
| Beck Depression Inventory | 3 months, 6 months, 15 months |
| SF-36 physical function subscale | 3 months, 6 months, 15 months |
| Global Impression of Change Rating | 3 months, 6 months, 15 months |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed