From co-cure again.
Now that's what I call good science. Give people who are too sick to take care of all of their necessary daily activites some help and see if they feel less tired and more energetic as compared to controls who received no help!
Does anyone know who Jason is? I'm too tired to research now. What else has he done?
islandfinn
Provision of social support to individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Journal: J Clin Psychol. 2009 Nov 9. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Jason LA, Roesner N, Porter N, Parenti B, Mortensen J, Till L.
Affiliation: DePaul University.
NLM Citation: PMID: 19902489
The present study evaluated a buddy program designed to provide
support for individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
The intervention involved weekly visits by a student
paraprofessional, who helped out with tasks that needed to be done in
an effort to reduce some of the taxing demands and responsibilities
that participants regularly encountered. This model of rehabilitation
focused on avoiding overexertion in persons with CFS, aiming to avoid
setbacks and relapses while increasing their tolerance for activity.
Participants with CFS were randomly assigned to either a 4-month
buddy intervention or a control condition. Posttest results showed
that individuals who received a student buddy intervention had
significantly greater reductions in fatigue severity and increases in
vitality than individuals in the control condition. There were no
significant changes between groups for physical functioning and stress.
Buddy interventions that help patients with CFS reduce overexertion
and possibly remain within their energy envelopes can be thought of
as representing a different paradigm than nonpharmacologic
interventions that focus only on increasing levels of activity
through graded exercise.
(c) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 66:1-10, 2010.
Now that's what I call good science. Give people who are too sick to take care of all of their necessary daily activites some help and see if they feel less tired and more energetic as compared to controls who received no help!
Does anyone know who Jason is? I'm too tired to research now. What else has he done?
islandfinn
Provision of social support to individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Journal: J Clin Psychol. 2009 Nov 9. [Epub ahead of print]
Authors: Jason LA, Roesner N, Porter N, Parenti B, Mortensen J, Till L.
Affiliation: DePaul University.
NLM Citation: PMID: 19902489
The present study evaluated a buddy program designed to provide
support for individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
The intervention involved weekly visits by a student
paraprofessional, who helped out with tasks that needed to be done in
an effort to reduce some of the taxing demands and responsibilities
that participants regularly encountered. This model of rehabilitation
focused on avoiding overexertion in persons with CFS, aiming to avoid
setbacks and relapses while increasing their tolerance for activity.
Participants with CFS were randomly assigned to either a 4-month
buddy intervention or a control condition. Posttest results showed
that individuals who received a student buddy intervention had
significantly greater reductions in fatigue severity and increases in
vitality than individuals in the control condition. There were no
significant changes between groups for physical functioning and stress.
Buddy interventions that help patients with CFS reduce overexertion
and possibly remain within their energy envelopes can be thought of
as representing a different paradigm than nonpharmacologic
interventions that focus only on increasing levels of activity
through graded exercise.
(c) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 66:1-10, 2010.
