Table 2.
Variable | CFS/ME (n = 95) | Breast Cancer (n = 67) | p |
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Fatigue | |||
Interference, M (SD) | 7.03 (1.90) | 2.62 (2.11) | <.001 |
Severity, M (SD) | 6.83 (1.33) | 4.65 (1.53) | <.001 |
Depressive symptoms | |||
Depressed mood, M (SD) | 7.62 (6.27) | 3.42 (3.55) | <.001 |
Continuous, M (SD) | 25.70 (12.55) | 12.59 (9.27) | <.001 |
Clinically elevated, n (%) | 72 (76%) | 17 (25%) | <.001 |
Note: M=Mean. SD=Standard Deviation. Fatigue Interference and Severity from Fatigue Symptom Inventory (FSI) subscales; Depressive symptoms from Center for Epidemiological Studies – Depression (CES-D) measure; Clinically elevated Depressive symptoms defined as a total score of ≥ 16. Group differences on continuous variables determined by independent-samples t-test. Group differences on dichotomous variables determined by Pearson Chi-Square test.