Fatigue Self-Management in Primary Care

Stony Brook University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Medically Unexplained Chronic Fatigue

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive-behavioral self-management; Behavioral: Symptom monitoring

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00997451

NIH 5R01NR010229 - 03

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate, in a primary care setting, the effectiveness of a brief self-management behavioral treatment in patients with medically unexplained chronic fatigue. The hypothesis will be tested that fatigue self-management will yield improvements in fatigue,functioning, and distress in comparison to the two control conditions: standard medical care alone or standard medical care plus an attention control symptom monitoring condition.

Enrollment: 107 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of unexplained chronic fatigue
• diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome

Exclusion criteria

• medically explained fatigue
• any psychosis or dementia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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107 participants in 3 patient groups

Behavioral Self-Management

Experimental group

Description:

Cognitive-behavioral self-management

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive-behavioral self-management

Symptom Monitoring

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Symptom monitoring

Standard Medical Care

No Intervention group