Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Prevalence and its Relation to Job Performance among Nurses

Mohsen Haddadi,Seyed Abolfazl Zakerian,Mahmoud Mahmoudi,Abolfazl Aliyari,Zohreh Parsa Yekta,Gebraeil Nasl Saraji

doi:10.13189/ujph.2015.030101

Mohsen Haddadi, Seyed Abolfazl Zakerian + Show 4 more

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https://doi.org/10.13189/ujph.2015.030101

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Background and Objectives: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a severe, debilitating disorder. Permanent chronic fatigue that affects the daily routine activities at least for six months and4 of the 8 patients reported symptoms associated with this disorder (problems of memory / concentration, restless sleep, joint pain, swollen lymph nodes, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, weakness due to work) and the absence of any underlying disease is the another sign of this disorder. One of the important things that are noticeable about the syndrome, is causing physical and mental disabilities in the person that will lead to approximately 50% reduction in his job performance. Methods: This study has been conducted through self-reported questionnaire and field and library studies. So the desired randomly set of 78 nurses have been selected to answer the two demographic information and symptoms questionnaires CFS (DSQ. revised)which it's reliability and validity has been verified. These questionnaires have been adjusted to the patient's preliminary data record and their symptoms. In the second stage, each individual job performance questionnaire was completed by department head. Results: The information obtained from the chronic fatigue syndrome questionnaire shows 14.1% prevalence of CFS. In discussing the relationship between CFS and indicators of job performance, it was cleared that people with the syndrome has lower job performance than those are healthy. Conclusions: In many similar studies, the effects of CFS on overall job performance in subjects were discussed and in most cases have been verified. The only differences are in subdivisions of job performance which are considered in this research

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Chronic fatigue syndrome is a severe, debilitating disorder in many definitions (Prins et al 2006;Afari et al 2003). the most common definition in all researches and in clinical sections is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of America which is known as (CDC)definition
The following results were obtained from studying the relationship between chronic fatigue syndrome and task performance index: 9.1% are at the weak category of patients with Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), 81.8% are at the average, 9.1% are at the high category, whereas healthy individuals mainly (91%) are in the high category of the task performance index and they are not statistically significant at weak category
The following results were obtained from studying the relationship between chronic fatigue syndrome and awareness performance index: 72.7% are at the average, 27.3% are at the high category, whereas healthy individuals mainly (91%) are in the high category of the awareness performance index and they are not statistically significant at weak category

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Chronic fatigue syndrome is a severe, debilitating disorder in many definitions (Prins et al 2006;Afari et al 2003). the most common definition in all researches and in clinical sections is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of America which is known as (CDC)definition. Chronic fatigue syndrome is a severe, debilitating disorder in many definitions (Prins et al 2006;Afari et al 2003). The patients must have at least 4 of the 8 specific symptoms of the disorder (problems of memory/ concentration, restless sleep, joint pain, swollen lymph nodes, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, weakness due to work ). Permanent chronic fatigue that affects the daily routine activities at least for six months and[4] of the 8 patients reported symptoms associated with this disorder (problems of memory / concentration, restless sleep, joint pain, swollen lymph nodes, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, weakness due to work) and the absence of any underlying disease is the another sign of this disorder. Revised)which it’s reliability and validity has been verified These questionnaires have been adjusted to the patient's preliminary data record and their symptoms. The only differences are in subdivisions of job performance which are considered in this research

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