Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Kai Österberg - Lund University, Department of Psychology
Description
The research team has developed a preliminary version of a simple, short and easily interpreted questionnaire for the detection of early stages of chronic fatigue syndrome. The draft version is now being tested clinically in occupational health. This is a validation study with the aim to further development and quality assurance instrument. The instrument is provided quarterly for 3 years to about 1,500 people who are likely to have an increased risk of developing chronic fatigue syndrome. Of those that have shown increasing signs of stress-related disorders in two consecutive quarters every other is offered a individual consultation on stress prevention, while others offered the same consultation after rising signs of stress-related disorders in five consecutive quarters. This highlights the instruments predictive validity, ie. how well it measures early signs of what would later evolve towards chronic fatigue syndrome. The instrument is answered even by patients in the early stages of chronic fatigue syndrome, to verify the prospective findings. Further, the instrument are being tested at w
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Responsible department/unit
Lund University, Department of PsychologyUnit of analysis
Time period(s) investigated
2012–2016
Geographic spread
Geographic description: Scania
Research area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Occupational Health and Environmental Health
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
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Associated documentation
Description
Data also collected using several psychometric instruments and self assessment formsData format / data structure
Numeric
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Kai Österberg - Lund University, Department of Psychology
Time period(s) investigated
2012–ongoing