Abstract
Considerable discussion has transpired regarding whether chronic fatigue syndrome is a distinct illness from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. A prior study contrasted the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria with the Fukuda and colleagues' chronic fatigue syndrome criteria and found that the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria identified a subset of patients with greater functional impairment and physical, mental, and cognitive problems than the larger group who met Fukuda and colleagues' criteria. The current study analyzed two discrete data sets and found that the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis International Consensus Criteria identified more impaired individuals with more severe symptomatology.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 3-15 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of Health Psychology |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2016 |
Funding
Funding was provided by NIAID (grant numbers AI 49720 and AI 055735). We appreciate the ME Research UK organization, which provided a grant to collect the Newcastle sample.
Keywords
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- chronic illness
- diagnosis
- grounded theory
- methodology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Psychology