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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) symptom inventory for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME) is aimed to assess whether a person meets the CDC diagnostic criteria for (CFS)1) (section: diseases & symptoms.
Note that Lifelines also assesses (chronic) fatigue using the CIS and PROMIS instruments plus some general questions.
Background
The CDC symptom survey assesses the 8 symptoms that are part of the diagnostic criteria for CSF, plus a single question on fatigue duration and a single yes/no question on depression in the last 6 months to increase the diagnostic value.
The presence of CFS is currently only questioned by self-report, but recent studies indicate that this methodology misses 90% of the CFS diagnoses 2).
Using the CDC symtom survey, participants may be diagnosed with CFS/ME in the dataset.
Variables
Questions English | Questions Dutch | Variable | Assessment | Age |
Please indicate whether the parts of the body listed below were painful and/or tender in the past 7 days: | Geef aan of de onderstaande lichaamsdelen pijnlijk en/of gevoelig waren in de afgelopen 7 dagen: | |||
Left shoulder | Linker schouder | WPI1 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Right shoulder | Rechter schouder | WPI2 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Left hip | Linker heup | WPI3 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Right hip | Rechter heup | WPI4 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Left upper arm | Linker bovenarm | WPI5 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Right upper arm | Rechter bovenarm | WPI6 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Left lower arm | Linker onderarm | WPI7 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Right lower arm | Rechter onderarm | WPI8 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Left upper leg | Linker bovenbeen | WPI9 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Right upper leg | Rechter bovenbeen | WPI10 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Left lower leg | Linker onderbeen | WPI11 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Right lower leg | Rechter onderbeen | WPI12 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Left side of jaw | Linker kaak | WPI13 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Right side of jaw | Rechter kaak | WPI14 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Chest | Borstkas | WPI15 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Abdomen | Buik | WPI16 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Upper back | Bovenrug | WPI17 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Lower back | Onderrug | WPI18 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |
Neck | Nek | WPI19 | 2A NEXT | 18+ |