This involved banking complaints reducing by 11% and insurance cases by 7%.
Enriching for subjective memory complaints reduced sample sizes and numbers needed to enroll more than age enrichment, but increased the number needed to screen.
A cap has been imposed on industrial tribunal payments and the time limit for complaints reduced from two years to one.
Men who suffer from this syndrome may experience a sense of feeling burned out, increased depression, increased irritability, increased anxiety, more nervousness, more joint complaints, reduced mental effectiveness, increased sweating, (and hot sweats in thirty per cent of those affected).
No association between number of experienced tick bites or seropositivity for Borrelia antibodies and subjective health complaints, reduced general function or reduced physical fitness was found.
Compared to a community sample, patients reported more physical complaints, reduced motor functioning and autonomy, and impaired positive emotional functioning 6 weeks after diagnosis.
Specifically, at 6 weeks, the patients reported more physical complaints, reduced basic motor functioning and autonomy, and impaired global positive emotional functioning.
Suls and Wan [ 78] suggest that giving information about potential pain and complaints reduces negative effects and pain reports following treatment.
The main finding in this study was the lack of association between the risk factors tick bites and Borrelia antibodies with the outcomes subjective health complaints, reduced general function and reduced physical fitness.
In the present study three 'physical' interventions and two 'non-physical' interventions are offered: improving personal work capacity, reducing and preventing back complaints, reducing and preventing neck and shoulder complaints, guidance by a dietician in case of substantial overweight of an employee, and stress reduction.
