ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2024
"I'm always going to be tired": a qualitative exploration of adolescents' experiences of fatigue in depression.
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- Disease awareness and experience of adolescent depression patients: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring fatigue in clinically depressed adolescents: a secondary analysis of the IMPACT study sample.BMC psychology · 2026Trial
- Grade-specific associations between insomnia and depressive symptoms in adolescents: a cross-lagged panel network analysis.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits.Translational psychiatry · 2026Review
- Management of Insomnia Complaints by Non-Sleep Specialist Physicians: A French DELPHI Consensus.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Fear of Missing Out and Aggression: Role of Fatigue, Daytime Sleepiness and Self-regulation-A Serial Mediation Model.Annals of neurosciences · 2026Article
- Children's experiences of living with their mental ill-health - a scoping review.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
- The Temporal Dynamics of Sleep Disturbances, Depression, and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Preadolescents: A Year-Long Intensive Longitudinal Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Network analysis in depressed adolescents with suicidal ideation: the role of depression, anxiety, and childhood abuse.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Adolescent depression is a prevalent and disabling condition, but current psychological treatments are only moderately effective. One way to enhance outcomes is to further our understanding of adolescent depression and improve our capacity to target the most frequently reported and problematic symptoms. A common but often neglected symptom of depression is fatigue, which is associated with considerable impairment and has the potential to interfere with adolescents' engagement in psychological therapies. Despite this, the experience of fatigue in adolescent depression and how we target it in treatment is currently poorly understood. Therefore, we aimed to explore adolescents' experiences and understandings of fatigue in depression, recruiting from clinical and community settings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 UK-based adolescents aged 14-18 years old with elevated symptoms of depression. Using reflexive thematic analysis, three themes were generated. Fatigue is a complex concept explored adolescents' understanding of fatigue as a dynamic, multifaceted symptom which had mental and physical components. Trapped in a cycle of fatigue considered the complex and reciprocal relationship between fatigue and other depressive symptoms, and the subsequent impact of limited energy on engagement with everyday activities. Finally, stigma as a barrier to help-seeking highlighted how adolescents were reluctant to seek help due to experienced stigma and the perception that fatigue was not a serious enough symptom. Findings from this study suggest that fatigue should be viewed as a psychological as well as somatic symptom of depression, with implications regarding the identification and treatment of fatigue in depression in routine clinical practice.
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