Table 3. Overview of fatigue interventions in the included reviews.
| Intervention (including common/relevant subtypes) |
Health condition | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CFS | RA | SLE | PD | TBI | IBD | Sarcoidosis | Peripheral neuropathy | Coronary heart disease | HIV | ESKD | Post-stroke | Fibro-myalgia | Sjorgen’s Syndrome | MS | Mixed | |
| Pharmacological | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | |||
| Exercise | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | |||
| Psychological/behavioural | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 (overlap) | |||||
| 1. CBT based | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||
| 2. Education | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| 3. Management (various) | x | x | x | x | x | |||||||||||
| 4. Relaxation | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 5. Counselling | x | |||||||||||||||
| 6. Mindfulness | x | x | x | x (specific) | ||||||||||||
| 7. Expressive writing | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 8. Energy conservation | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 9. Solution focussed therapy | x | |||||||||||||||
| 10. Guided imagery | x (specific) | |||||||||||||||
| Complementary medicine | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 (overlap) | ||||||
| 1. Acupuncture (or similar) | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||
| 2. Herbal medicine | x | x | x | |||||||||||||
| 3. Diet | x | x | ||||||||||||||
| 4. Supplements | x | x | x | |||||||||||||
| 5. Phototherapy | x | |||||||||||||||
| 6. Pulsed electromagnetic therapy | x | |||||||||||||||
| 7. Cooling | x | |||||||||||||||
| 8. Electroenc. Biofeedback | x | |||||||||||||||
| 9. Cranial electro. stimulation | x | |||||||||||||||
| 10. Blue light | x | |||||||||||||||
| 11. Reflexology | x | |||||||||||||||
| 12. Japanese massage | x | |||||||||||||||
Note: the numbers given show the number of reviews in each condition that have included interventions classed as pharmacological, exercise, psychological/behavioural and complementary medicine, respectively. (x) denotes more specifically which types of interventions, under the psychological/behavioural and complementary medicine headings, have been investigated in each health condition. Where possible subgroups were provided, however, descriptions of interventions in the exercise category were extremely variable so creating meaningful and accurate subgroups was not possible. Sub-headings are based upon the labels given in reviews.
(CFS; Chronic fatigue syndrome, RA; Rheumatoid arthritis, SLE; Systemic lupus erythematosus, PD; Parkinson’s disease, TBI; Traumatic brain injury, IBD; Inflammatory bowel disease, HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus, ESKD; End stage kidney disease, MS; Multiple sclerosis)