ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
A Proposal for a Unifying Set of Definitions of Fatigue.
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- Effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue in adults with long-term conditions: a synopsis of the EIFFEL mixed-methods evidence synthesis.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Assessing the Evidential Value of Mental Fatigue and Exercise Research.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Pooled it
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- Predictive processes linking sense of agency and fatigue: a novel allostatic framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue in long term conditions: systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMJ medicine · 2026Article
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- Neuromuscular fatigability is not affected by the contraction pattern of exercises with a similar mean torque.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- Post-stroke fatigue - a multidimensional problem or a cluster of disorders? A case for phenotyping post-stroke fatigue.The Journal of physiology · 2025Review
- Association of obesogenic environment and hedonic appetite with chronic fatigue in Turkish adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Heart rate variability versus visual analog scale for objective and subjective mental fatigue detection: A randomized controlled trial.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Assessing prefrontal cortex activity in Graves' disease: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
In this paper, we propose a set of unifying definitions that are useful in all areas of fatigue research while remaining neutral to the various theories about fatigue. We first set up two criteria and four desiderata that a definition for interdisciplinary use needs to fulfill: (i) non-circularity, (ii) finiteness, (iii) broadness, (iv) precision, (v) neutrality, and (vi) phenomenon-focus. We argue that other existing attempts to unify definitions within fatigue research do not fulfill all of these criteria and desiderata. Instead, we argue for a set of stipulative definitions, centered around performance measures and subjective estimations, is required in order to maximize clarity. In total, a set of 13 distinct definitions of fatigue and fatigue-related phenomena is presented. These definitions will help facilitate communication between different researchers, link phenomena from divergent research fields together, facilitate application and knowledge production, and increase the specificity for hypothesis testing.
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