Acute fatigue assessment and management (FAME)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Fatigue: acute fatigue Assessment and Management in Everyday practice (FAME) pilot
IRAS ID
146025
Contact name
Paul Little
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Southampton
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
This research aims, in the proposed future NIHR Programme grant, to help patients manage short-term (acute) fatigue – one of the most intrusive but often hidden symptoms – and to better understand and predict which patients with acute fatigue go on to develop Chronic Fatigue (lasting 6 months or more) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). We will also explore whether a web based intervention can help both acute fatigue and also prevent progression to chronic fatigue.
However, preliminary feasibility research is needed before full funding can be justified. This grant will enable us to explore the assessment and recruitment of the different groups of fatigue presenting in primary care and explore the issues for patients, both where fatigue is presented as the main problem but also where fatigue is a major hidden symptom, and perform a feasibility study of the proposed patient cohort.
The research is a multicentre collaboration led by Southampton University and the team includes a very broad range of study and condition expertise necessary to successfully complete the research, although for this component (the feasibility study) methods already developed for the larger grant will be used but adapted to a feasibility study.REC name
South Central - Hampshire A Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/SC/1183
Date of REC Opinion
20 Oct 2014
REC opinion
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