Factores predictores de la discapacidad laboral en el síndrome de fatiga crónica

Abstract

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a well-defined clinical entity that determines an intense physical and mental fatigue that causes a severe disability to patients interfering in a great way their work activity and in their tasks of daily life. In addition to fatigue, these patients come along with a characteristic symptomatology of inflammation, muscular, sleep dysfunction and alteration of cognitive functions. CFS affects young adults, between 20 and 40 years, predominates in the female of 75 to 85%. The aim of this thesis was to study whether sociodemographic, clinical data, comorbid phenomena and stratification of the fatigue complex through self-administered questionnaires in patients with CFS, performed in a Specialized Unit (but could also have been performed in primary health care) could allow us to differentiate the working patients from those who do not work and could be useful as a guide for an optimal functional assessment. Of the 1086 patients studied, 58% did not work at the time of diagnosis. The profile of the CSF patient’s who does not work at the time of diagnosis is of a woman over 50 years, with specialized work, medium or higher studies, with more clinical symptoms (neurological, cognitive and neurovegetative), with presence of associated comorbid phenomena and more fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression, psychopathology, sleep dysfunction and worse physical and mental quality of life.

Date of Award	14 Sept 2017
Original language	Spanish
Awarding Institution	Vall d'Hebron University Hospital (HUVH)
Supervisor	José Alegre Martín (Director) & Tomas Fernandez de Sevilla Ribosa (Director)