Background. Fatigue is a significant aspect of everyday life for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and it influences their health-related quality of life. Little is known about fatigue from the patient's perspective. Aim. To investigate how female IBD patients experience and handle fatigue. Methods. The study included 11 female outpatients. These patients were 40-59 years old and ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the characteristics of fatigued and non-fatigued post-polio patients and to define potential subgroups across the fatigue continuum. DESIGN Multi-centre study. SUBJECTS A total of 143 post-polio patients were subdivided on the basis of percentile distribution into a fatigue group, a intermediate group, and a non-fatigue group, using the Multi Fatigue Inventory 20 gener...

BACKGROUND Shift work is a well-recognized occupational health hazard in both industrialized and industrially developing countries. Prolonged working time, day/night shift rotation, circadian rhythm and sleep disorders, family and social problems are the most important features of shift working, which have serious complications. OBJECTIVES The present study evaluated the fatigue and psycholog...

Título: Efectos de la fatiga anticipatoria y la sintomatología emocional en la percepción de fatiga física y cognitiva. Resumen: El objetivo de este estudio fue doble, primero, analizar los efectos de la fatiga anticipatoria, la sintomatología emocional y la pertenencia a un grupo clínico sobre la percepción de fatiga física y mental; segundo, explorar el potencial efecto moderador de la antici...

We propose mental fatigue measurement using a wearable eye detection system. The system is capable of acquiring movement of the pupil and blinking from the light reflected from the eye. The reflection is detected by dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells. Since these cells are patterned onto the eyeglass and do not require external input power, the system is notable for its lightweight and low power...

As a spatial selective attention-based brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigm, steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) BCI has the advantages of high information transfer rate, high tolerance to artifacts, and robust performance across users. However, its benefits come at the cost of mental load and fatigue occurring in the concentration on the visual stimuli. Noise, as a ubiquitous rando...

BackgroundFatigue is among the most prevalent symptoms for people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) and significantly detrimental to mental health-related (mental) quality of life (QoL). We examined role depression physical activity as mediators in fatigue-QoL relationship pwMS.MethodsUsing baseline cross-sectional data from an international cohort 2,104 pwMS, characteristics fatigue QoL, measured...

BACKGROUND We studied the prevalence of common mental disorders among Dutch hospital physicians and investigated whether the presence of a mental disorder was associated with insufficient self-reported work ability. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all (n = 958) hospital physicians of one academic medical center, using validated scales to assess burnout, work-related fatigue, stress, postt...

Commonly conflated with sleepiness, fatigue is a distinct multidimensional condition with physical and mental effects. Fatigue in health care providers and any secondary effects on patient care are an important societal concern. As medical image interpretation is highly dependent on visual input, visual fatigue is of particular interest to radiologists. Humans analyze their surroundings with ra...

BACKGROUND Centenarians are characterized by weakness, decreasing mental health, impaired mobility, and poor endurance. L-Carnitine is an important contributor to cellular energy metabolism. OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the efficacy of L-carnitine on physical and mental fatigue and on cognitive functions of centenarians. DESIGN This was a placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind, 2-ph...