ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2018
A reexamination of the cognitive behavioral model of chronic fatigue syndrome.
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- Recent research in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an evidence map.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Pooled it
- CBT and graded exercise therapy studies have proven that ME/CFS and long COVID are physical diseases, yet no one is aware of that.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- [Fatigue in chronic physical diseases].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Review
- Why the Psychosomatic View on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Inconsistent with Current Evidence and Harmful to Patients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Causal attributions and perceived stigma for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.Journal of health psychology · 2022Article
- The Updated NICE Guidance Exposed the Serious Flaws in CBT and Graded Exercise Therapy Trials for ME/CFS.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Is It Useful to Question the Recovery Behaviour of Patients with ME/CFS or Long COVID?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- The development of a short form of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire.Rehabilitation psychology · 2019Article
- HOW PSYCHIATRIC REFERRALS INFLUENCE STIGMATIZATION IN PATIENTS WITH MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AND CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: AN EXAMINATION OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH MODELS.Community psychology in global perspective · 2019Article
- The 'cognitive behavioural model' of chronic fatigue syndrome: Critique of a flawed model.Health psychology openArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThe cognitive behavioral model of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) suggests that cognitions and reduced activity level perpetuate the fatigue and impairment that individuals with CFS experience. The two empirical evaluations of this model resulted in conflicting findings. The current study examines the influence of case definition fulfillment on the applicability of this model to CFS.
methodA moderated mediation analysis was conducted on 990 individuals with CFS to reexamine the behavioral pathway of this model. Case definition fulfillment was entered as a moderator.
resultsFindings were generally inconsistent with the cognitive behavioral model of CFS. Case definition fulfillment significantly moderated the relation between activity level and physical impairment (β = -0.08, p = 0.03); individuals who met more stringent case definitions demonstrated a weaker relation between activity level and impairment.
conclusionsThis model may not accurately represent the experience of individuals with CFS, particularly those who fulfill more stringent case definitions.
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