Rehabilitation of Adolescents Living With Chronic Fatigue

St. Olavs Hospital

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic

Treatments

Behavioral: Health promoting dialogue

Other: standard treatment / treatment as usual

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04177459

2019/1081

Details and patient eligibility

About

Previous studies have shown that health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adolescents living with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) is low if compared with healthy adolescents and adolescents living with other chronic diseases. Effective strategies to improve HRQoL in this group are still lacking. Recently we have observed HRQoL in a group of Norwegian adolescents with CFS/ME (not yet published), which is the background for a new study where we have planned an intervention with health promoting dialogues between patient and nurse, as a strategy to improve HRQoL. In this study we have also opened to include adolescents with other chronic fatigue diagnosis with similar challenges in follow-up as in CFS/ME.

Enrollment

3 patients

Sex

All

Ages

12 to 25 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

chronic fatigue as main symptom (including but not limited to diagnostic codes ICD-10 G93.3 CFS/ME, F48.0 Neurasthenia, R53 Fatigue)
having undergone an interdisciplinary diagnostic evaluation at The Children's Clinic or at The Fatigue and CFS/ME Outpatient Clinic, St. Olavs hospital during the period 1.8.2019 - 1.4.2020.
being a pupil or wishing to be a pupil.

Exclusion criteria

not Norwegian speaking
for any reason unable to read and answer a questionnaire
for any reason unable to take part in the health promoting dialogues

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

3 participants in 2 patient groups

Health promoting dialogue in addition to treatment as usual

Experimental group

Description:

Health promoting dialogues in addition to follow-up from primary and secondary health care, and from schools, which is individually customized due to fatigue and other symptoms present.

Treatment:

Other: standard treatment / treatment as usual

Behavioral: Health promoting dialogue

Treatment as usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Follow-up from primary and secondary health care, and from Schools, which is individually customized due to fatigue and other symptoms present..

Treatment:

Other: standard treatment / treatment as usual