Jason Leonard A, Timpo Phyllis, Porter Nicole, Herrington Joshua, Brown Molly, Torres-Harding Susan, Friedberg Fred
DePaul University.
J Ment Health. 2009 Dec;18(6). doi: 10.3109/09638230903191249.
Self-report data collected through interviews has been one of the primary ways of assessing symptoms of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). An alternative way to collect data involves activity logs, which involves patients writing down the pattern, intensity, and qualitative nature of activity over several days.
We examined the associations between activity, evaluation of activity and symptoms.
Activity log data over a two day period of time were used in the present study using a sample of patients with diagnosed CFS.
Findings indicated that the percent of time spent feeling fatigued was positively associated with a higher percent of time in pain and doing activities that were fatiguing. However, time spent in meaningful activities was associated with less fatigue.
These findings and others suggest that activity logs can provide investigators and clinicians with valuable sources of data for understanding patterns of behavior and activity among patients with CFS.
通过访谈收集的自我报告数据一直是评估慢性疲劳综合征(CFS)患者症状的主要方式之一。另一种收集数据的方法是活动日志,即让患者记录几天内活动的模式、强度和性质。
我们研究了活动、活动评估与症状之间的关联。
本研究使用了被诊断为CFS的患者样本,采用了为期两天的活动日志数据。
研究结果表明,感到疲劳的时间百分比与疼痛时间百分比以及进行疲劳活动的时间百分比呈正相关。然而,进行有意义活动的时间与较少的疲劳感相关。
这些发现以及其他研究结果表明,活动日志可为研究人员和临床医生提供有价值的数据来源,以了解CFS患者的行为和活动模式。