ReviewPatient related outcome measures2018
Chronic fatigue syndrome and quality of life.
Review in Patient related outcome measures, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Determinants of consumption level among target population in Chinese hot spring medical and long-term care integration with rehabilitation services model and value perception analysis based on the importance-performance analysis framework.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2026Article
- Prevalence and Associated Factors of Chronic Fatigue Among Healthcare Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study at a University Hospital in North Africa.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Overlapping Burdens of Fatigue and Daytime Sleepiness: Gender-Specific Impacts on Life Quality in Patients with Sleep Disorders.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A scoping review of 'Pacing' for management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): lessons learned for the long COVID pandemic.Journal of translational medicine · 2023Article
- Global prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome among long COVID-19 patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2022Article
- Quality of Professional Life and Burnout of the Nursing Staff at an Intensive Care Unit in Venezuela.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2021Article
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): Major Impact on Lives of Both Patients and Family Members.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- Health-related quality of life in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: an Australian cross-sectional study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2020Article
- An Association of Serotonin with Pain Disorders and Its Modulation by Estrogens.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
- Glial Activation and Expression of the Serotonin Transporter in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Review
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review.Health psychology openReview
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Abstract
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), is a challenging long-term condition (LTC) with complex and fluctuating symptoms. It is heterogeneous in presentation without diagnostic indicators; therefore, in health care encounters, insight must be gained from the patient's perspective. One indicator of impact can be gained by measuring quality of life (QoL). By applying a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM), professionals can gather insights with direct relevance to the patient questioned. Such a tool can act therapeutically tool to promote holistic and individualized professional interventions and interval measurement can inform commissioning of specialist services. Standard practice appears not fully to capture the experience of CFS, while a search of the literature turned up QoL patient-reported outcome tools, but failed to reveal a CFS/ME-specific measure. The author explores a valid and reliable PROM that can monitor change and evaluate the UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence rehabilitation program, as delivered by specialist National Health Service units. An alternative, the World Health Organization's quality-of life instrument (WHOQoL)-Bref26, is reviewed for relevance to the condition, measuring treatment outcomes and the wider debate of measuring QoL in LTCs.
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