Pain in chronic fatigue syndrome: response to rehabilitative treatments in the PACE trial.

Journal article

BACKGROUND: Pain is a common symptom of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). We investigated the effects of the treatments used in the PACE trial [cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), graded exercise therapy (GET), adaptive pacing therapy (APT) and specialist medical care (SMC)] on pain in CFS. METHOD: We compared pain outcomes including individual painful symptoms, taken from the CDC criteria for CFS and co-morbid fibromyalgia. We modelled outcomes adjusting for baseline variables with multiple l...

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Authors: Bourke, J; Johnson, A; Sharpe, M; Chalder, T; White, P

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Journal: Psychological medicine
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 1545-1552
• Publication date: 2014-05-01
• DOI: 10.1017/s0033291713002201
• EISSN: 1469-8978
• ISSN: 0033-2917
• Language: English
• Keywords: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); Adaptive pacing therapy (APT); graded exercise therapy (GET); PACE trial; rehabilitation; chronic pain; fibromyalgia; cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)