scholarly journals Autobiographical and biopsychological indicators of life satisfaction of the persons of pre-retirement age

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Vadim Pavlovich Melnik
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Path

The subject of this research is the correlation between the indicator of life satisfaction as a cognitive-affective construct of human psyche, certain scales that reflect the respondents’ perception of a temporal project of life (such parameters  as orientation towards the future, fatalistic present, hedonistic present), which reflect the cognitive component of life assessment and various parameters of the life path of a person, such as self-esteem of activity throughout life, career success, material well-being, indicators of overall activity, optimism, parental status and/or presence of dependents, presence of intellectual or sport hobbies, strategies of cooperation/individualism, determined in the course of the game “Dilemma of the Prisoner”, scales of depressive symptoms and severity of chronic fatigue syndrome, and ratio of the biological age index to appropriate biological age as an indicator of the difference between normal and individual level of aging in the age group, and indicator of psychological age and personal maturity that reflect the assessment of self-realization and the adequacy of mental state to physical state respectively. The author’s special contribution to this research consists in the establishment of correlation between the indicators of life satisfaction and cognitive assessment of the parameters of life path, such as overall activity throughout life, optimism, strategies of cooperation and partnership with the surrounding people, orientation towards the future relative to time-related project of life, and establishment of inverse connection with orientation towards the present regardless of the emotional coloring of such perception. The biological parameters of individual aging among persons of pre-retirement age play lesser role than the assessment of the reflected on current life situation. However, the author determines significant negative associations between the manifestation of depressive symptoms and the severity of chronic fatigue syndrome and life satisfaction.

scholarly journals Depressive symptoms in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): Are rates higher than in controls and do depressive symptoms affect outcome?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 580-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elizabeth Loades ◽  
Katharine A. Rimes ◽  
Sheila Ali ◽  
Trudie Chalder
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Treatment Session ◽  
Depression Score ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Clinical Cohort ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Depression Status

Introduction:Previous research has indicated that co-morbid depression is common in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).Objectives:We sought to compare the characteristics of depressive symptoms in adolescents with CFS to those of healthy controls (HCs) and illness controls (adolescents with asthma).Design:Case-control study nested within a prospective clinical cohort.Methods:A total of 121 adolescents with CFS who attended an initial assessment at two specialist CFS units completed the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI). Their responses were compared to 80 HCs and 27 adolescents with asthma (illness controls). The clinical cohort of adolescents with CFS completed questionnaires at assessment, and those who were seen subsequently for treatment at the CFS unit (68%) completed the measures again at their first treatment session.Results:CFS participants scored significantly higher on all the depression subscales than participants with asthma and HCs. Depression score explained 11% of the variance in subsequent fatigue, but only 1.9% of the variance in physical functioning. Depression score also explained most (68%) of the variance in subsequent depression.Conclusion:Depressive symptoms are more prominent in adolescents with CFS than in HCs or illness controls. These symptoms also appear to remain over time during a naturalistic follow-up where no treatment was provided. This highlights the need for further research into depression in CFS, including stratifying treatment outcomes by depression status to determine what is effective at addressing these symptoms.

Immunological and Psychological Dysfunction in Patients Receiving Immunotherapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hickie ◽  
Andrew Lloyd ◽  
Denis Wakefield
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Active Immunotherapy ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Cell Mediated Immunity ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Psychological Dysfunction ◽  
Immunological Dysfunction

Associations between immunological and psychological dysfunction in 33 patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) were examined before and in response to treatment in a double blind, placebo-controlled trial of high dose intravenous immunoglobulin. Only those patients who received active immunotherapy demonstrated a consistent pattern of correlations between improvement in depressive symptoms and markers of cell-mediated immunity (CMI). This finding lends some support to the hypothesis that depressive symptoms in patients with CFS occur secondary to, or share a common pathophysiology with, immunological dysfunction. This pattern and the lack of strong associations between depression and immunological disturbance prior to treatment are less supportive of the view that CFS is primarily a form of depressive disorder or that immunological dysfunction in patients with CFS is secondary to concurrent depression.

Participation and Life Satisfaction Among Women With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4_Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 7311505115p1
Author(s):  
Michal Avrech Bar ◽  
Tami Bar-Shalita ◽  
Morit Rosenberg ◽  
Galia Rahav
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome

scholarly journals Pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Jason ◽  
Kristen Barker ◽  
Abigail Brown
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
The Future

Research on pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is reviewed in this article. Many recent articles in this area highlight the existence of key differences between the adult and pediatric forms of the illness. This review article provides an overview of pediatric ME/ CFS, including epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, treatment, and prognosis. Challenges to the field are identified with the hope that in the future pediatric cases of ME/CFS can be more accurately diagnosed and successfully managed.

scholarly journals Effects of Qigong Exercise on Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome-Like Illness: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie S. M. Chan ◽  
Rainbow T. H. Ho ◽  
Chong-wen Wang ◽  
Lai Ping Yuen ◽  
Jonathan S. T. Sham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Alternative Therapy ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Therapy ◽  
Fatigue Score ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome

Background. Anxiety/depressive symptoms are common in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome- (CFS-) like illness. Qigong as a modality of complementary and alternative therapy has been increasingly applied by patients with chronic illnesses, but little is known about the effect of Qigong on anxiety/depressive symptoms of the patients with CFS-like illness.Purpose. To investigate the effects of Qigong on fatigue, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in patients with CFS-illness.Methods. One hundred and thirty-seven participants who met the diagnostic criteria for CFS-like illness were randomly assigned to either an intervention group or a waitlist control group. Participants in the intervention group received 10 sessions of Qigong training twice a week for 5 consecutive weeks, followed by home-based practice for 12 weeks. Fatigue, anxiety, and depressive symptoms were assessed at baseline and postintervention.Results. Total fatigue score [F1,135=13.888,P<0.001], physical fatigue score [F1,135=20.852,P<0.001] and depression score [F1,135=9.918,P=0.002] were significantly improved and mental fatigue score [F1,135=3.902,P=0.050] was marginally significantly improved in the Qigong group compared to controls. The anxiety score was not significantly improved in the Qigong group.Conclusion. Qigong may not only reduce the fatigue symptoms, but also has antidepressive effect for patients with CFS-like illness. Trial registrationHKCTR-1200.

scholarly journals Depressive symptoms and pragmatic rehabilitation for chronic fatigue syndrome

2012 ◽  
Vol 201 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Wearden ◽  
G. Dunn ◽  
C. Dowrick ◽  
R. K. Morriss
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Randomised Trial ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Behavioural Therapy ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Treatment As Usual ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome

BackgroundPrevious research has suggested that depressed mood may predict outcome and moderate response to treatment in chronic fatigue syndrome, although findings have differed between studies.AimsTo examine potential moderators of response to pragmatic rehabilitation v. general practitioner treatment as usual in a recent randomised trial for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in primary care (IRCTN74156610).MethodSimple regressions, with weighting adjustments to allow for missing data, were calculated. Demographic, medical and psychological variables, and treatment arm, were entered separately and as an interaction term. The outcome variable in each case was change in Chalder Fatigue Scale scores, from baseline to 1-year follow-up, our primary outcome point.ResultsLonger illness durations predicted poorer outcome across the two treatment arms. For patients allocated to pragmatic rehabilitation compared with those allocated to treatment as usual, higher levels of depressive symptoms at baseline were associated with smaller improvements in fatigue (P = 0.022).ConclusionsFor patients in primary care with higher levels of depressive symptoms, either more intensive or longer pragmatic rehabilitation, or cognitive–behavioural therapy, may be required in order to show a significant improvement in fatigue.

Factors associated with work status in chronic fatigue syndrome

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 453-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
S A M Stevelink ◽  
N T Fear ◽  
M Hotopf ◽  
T Chalder
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome

Abstract Background Work status in people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has not been extensively researched. Aims To explore occupational outcomes in patients with CFS by socio-demographic, well-being and disease characteristics. Methods We assessed cross-sectional data from patients attending a UK specialist CFS treatment service between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2014. The main outcome was self-reported current employment status: currently in employment, temporarily interrupted employment or permanently interrupted employment. Other variables included sex, age, ethnicity, education, marital status, CFS duration, fatigue severity, anxiety, depression, activity limitations and functional impairment. We used multinominal logistic regression models to identify factors associated with current work status. Results Two hundred and seventy-nine (55%) patients were currently working, with 83 (16%) reporting temporarily interrupted employment and 146 (29%) stopping work altogether. Factors strongly associated with permanently interrupted employment were older age (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 5.24; 95% CI 2.67–10.28), poorer functioning (AOR 6.41; 95% CI 3.65–11.24) and depressive symptoms (AOR 2.89; 95% CI 1.82–4.58) compared to patients currently working. Higher educated patients (AOR 0.60; 95% CI 0.37–0.97) and being in a relationship (AOR 0.34; 95% CI 0.21–0.54) were associated with being currently employed. Anxiety symptoms were common; 230 patients (45%) met caseness criteria. Conclusions Many patients with CFS were not working. This was exacerbated by high levels of depressive symptoms. Health professionals should assess co-morbid mental health conditions and consider treatment options when patients with CFS present themselves. The early involvement of occupational health practitioners is recommended to maximize the chances of maintaining employment.

scholarly journals Pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
Leonard Jason ◽  
Kristen Barker ◽  
Abigail Brown
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ◽  
Fatigue Syndrome ◽  
The Future

Research on pediatric Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is reviewed in this article. Many recent articles in this area highlight the existence of key differences between the adult and pediatric forms of the illness. This review article provides an overview of pediatric ME/ CFS, including epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, treatment, and prognosis. Challenges to the field are identified with the hope that in the future pediatric cases of ME/CFS can be more accurately diagnosed and successfully managed.

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