Table 5.
Associations between psycho-social factors and fatigue severitya
| Disease factor | CFS, n (%) |
P-value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absent | Mild | Moderate/severe | ||
| BDI (depression) | <0.0001 | |||
| Non-significant mood disturbance | 21 (40) | 19 (36) | 13 (25) | |
| Significant mood disturbance | 0 (0) | 1 (9) | 10 (91) | |
| GHQ (psychological distress) | 0.056 | |||
| Low | 22 (34) | 20 (31) | 22 (34) | |
| High | 0 (0) | 1 (17) | 5 (83) | |
| CWP (chronic pain) | 0.036 | |||
| Absent | 22 (34) | 19 (31) | 20 (33) | |
| Present | 0 (0) | 3 (30) | 7 (70) | |
Results in bold indicate statistically significant results at P < 0.05.
a
Number of subjects does not total 72 because of exclusion of subjects with missing or incomplete data;
*
Fisher’s exact test.