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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183286
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We adapted the intervention from a nurse-delivered behaviourally-oriented intervention for
cancer-related fatigue [3] and a self-management cognitive behavioural approach for chronic fatigue syndrome [13]. We drafted a Participant Manual to provide an outline of each session. The provisional programme consisted of three two-hour sessions with two-week intervals between sessions."
"In the long term, we envisage this intervention to be delivered by stroke nurses. However, we decided a clinical psychologist (KA) should test the feasibility in the current study."
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Recruitment.
From July 2014 to October 2014, we screened 421 patients (who had had a stroke in the past three months to two years) and sent invitation letters to 120 potentially eligible patients. Forty-nine eligible patients completed questionnaires, of whom 31 reported fatigue by the single question and the other 18 did not. Of the 31 fatigued patients, 11 had a PHQ-9 score of 15 or more (indicating severe depression) and so were excluded; the remaining 20 patients were eligible for the intervention, of whom eight declined to receive it (reasons for decline see Fig 1)."
"Four participants (all women) dropped out: one participant withdrew after the first session as, following discussion with the therapist, she explained that she did not desire an intervention for her fatigue but that her chief purpose in participation had been to contribute to the research; a second participant withdrew after the initial session and the third participant after the second session because of unrelated physical ill-health problems; the fourth participant failed to attend any of the sessions despite reminders and gave no reasons."
"This intervention was based on a cognitive behavioural therapeutic approach to challenge patients’ cognitive representation of fatigue and to encourage them to increase their daily activities. By gradually increasing their physical activity in daily living, patients were able to break the vicious cycle that perpetuate fatigue."
"However, this study did not have a control group, thus we do not know whether the improvement was due to the therapeutic effect or the natural resolution of fatigue."
I'm all for recycling but.........
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0183286
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We adapted the intervention from a nurse-delivered behaviourally-oriented intervention for
cancer-related fatigue [3] and a self-management cognitive behavioural approach for chronic fatigue syndrome [13]. We drafted a Participant Manual to provide an outline of each session. The provisional programme consisted of three two-hour sessions with two-week intervals between sessions."
"In the long term, we envisage this intervention to be delivered by stroke nurses. However, we decided a clinical psychologist (KA) should test the feasibility in the current study."
"
Recruitment.
From July 2014 to October 2014, we screened 421 patients (who had had a stroke in the past three months to two years) and sent invitation letters to 120 potentially eligible patients. Forty-nine eligible patients completed questionnaires, of whom 31 reported fatigue by the single question and the other 18 did not. Of the 31 fatigued patients, 11 had a PHQ-9 score of 15 or more (indicating severe depression) and so were excluded; the remaining 20 patients were eligible for the intervention, of whom eight declined to receive it (reasons for decline see Fig 1)."
"Four participants (all women) dropped out: one participant withdrew after the first session as, following discussion with the therapist, she explained that she did not desire an intervention for her fatigue but that her chief purpose in participation had been to contribute to the research; a second participant withdrew after the initial session and the third participant after the second session because of unrelated physical ill-health problems; the fourth participant failed to attend any of the sessions despite reminders and gave no reasons."
"This intervention was based on a cognitive behavioural therapeutic approach to challenge patients’ cognitive representation of fatigue and to encourage them to increase their daily activities. By gradually increasing their physical activity in daily living, patients were able to break the vicious cycle that perpetuate fatigue."
"However, this study did not have a control group, thus we do not know whether the improvement was due to the therapeutic effect or the natural resolution of fatigue."
I'm all for recycling but.........