Graded exercise therapy and counselling versus a booklet provided with usual care in adult patients with fatigue in primary care: a pragmatic randomised controlled phase III trial

King's College London (UK)0 个研究点目标入组 240 人开始时间: 2009年10月14日最近更新: 2015年1月13日

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•1. Age 16 to 75 years inclusive, either sex
•2. Fatigue of 3 months or more
•3. Patient presents fatigue as a main/important problem
•4. Patient may have other physical problems, which in the doctor's judgement are unlikely to have caused their fatigue
•5. Patient may be on stable drug regime for physical and/or psychological problems
•6. Patient has had a normal full blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and thyroid function test during the six months prior to entering the study, or on entry to the study
•7. Patient gives consent

•1. A score of less than 4 on a fatigue scale
•2. Patient has a physical condition/problem which does, or is likely to cause fatigue
•3. Patient is suffering from psychotic illness, organic brain syndrome, or substance dependency
•4. Patient is currently receiving treatment from a psychiatrist, counsellor, psychologist, Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN), physiotherapist, or other exercise specialist
•5. Patient is unable to come to the surgery for the treatment intervention
•6. Patient has severe asthma, chronic obstructive airway disease and/or ischaemic heart disease that would contraindicate graded exercise

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King's College London (UK)