Symptoms into words: how medical patients talk about fatigue

Fatigue, which is the central symptom of CFS/ME, is notoriously difficult to define. We describe an investigation in which we raise two questions. First, does the way people use fatigue-related language reflect distinctive patterns? Second, is there a particular pattern characteristic of CFS/ME? The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Standen, Penny, Ward, Christopher D., Saunders, Laura, Beer, Charlotte
Format: Book Section
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41275/