Illness Duration and Coping Style in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Coping and illness cognitions: chronic fatigue syndrome.
The chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is described, and research on coping with this illness reviewed and analysed. CFS is a severely disabling illness of unknown etiology, which has occurred in epidemic forms all over the world. However, the number of sufferers has dramatically increased over previous years. The heterogeneous symptomatology of CFS was reviewed, and diagnostic criteria were discus...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Reports
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0033-2941,1558-691X
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.106.2.383-393