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Illness beliefs of adolescents with CFS and their parents: the perceived causes of illness and beliefs about recovery
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The objective here was to explore beliefs about the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in a cohort of adolescents with CFS and their parents, and to explore the adolescent’s beliefs about recovery. Questionnaires were administered to a clinical cohort of adolescents (n = 104) and their parents (n = 102 mothers and 63 fathers), presenting to a specialist CFS unit. These included a question about the causes of their illness. Adolescents were also asked about the projected timeline of their recovery from CFS. The most commonly endorsed causes of CFS by adolescents and their parents were a virus and/or contextual factors and stress. Adolescents and their parents were in close agreement about the causes of CFS. Most adolescents said they did not know how long it would take them to recover from CFS. Informing adolescents about the prognosis for CFS is an important aspect of treatment.
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Negative illness perceptions are known maintaining factors for FSS.
“Known maintaining factors include negative illness perceptions (e.g. single cause attribution of symptom, no sense of control and long expectancy of symptoms) [14–16]”
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The Background (page unavailable) reports that beliefs about prognosis predict post-treatment fatigue in adults with CFS. The Conclusion (page unavailable) says viral attribution may reduce perceived control over recovery, but this cross-sectional study does not establish negative illness perceptions as maintaining factors across functional somatic symptoms (FSS), or show that single-cause attribution or expecting prolonged symptoms maintains them. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Loades, M. E., Rimes, K. A., Lievesley, K., Ali, S., & Chalder, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Bristol (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Loades, Maria E.
- Venue
- International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2018-08-17
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0334-0139 (ISSN-L)
- 2191-0278
- PMC
- PMC7116026
- OpenAlex
- W2809384682
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 1.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Pure (University of Bath) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Explore Bristol Research (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (DRF-2016-09-021)
- King's College London
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Keywords
- chronic fatigue syndrome, illness beliefs, adolescents, parents, perceived causes of illness, recovery expectations, prognosis, stress, viral etiology, illness perception
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