The broad scope of this study was to examine whether social support, psychological wellbeing, QoL, fatigue and other treatment-related symptoms as well as satisfaction with information received are associated with adherence behaviour.
In depth interviews were also conducted with women receiving acupuncture, exploring their sense of wellbeing, levels of fatigue and experience of acupuncture.
While there was little overall change in health status and psychological distress over the waiting period, most people perceived that other aspects of their wellbeing including pain, fatigue and confidence in managing their health had worsened while waiting.
Apart from patient-reported outcomes traditionally evaluated during the current standard assessment of RA, namely patient assessment of pain, functional disability and/or patient global assessment [ 4, 5], other health domains are also important for the patient such as fatigue, wellbeing and sleep pattern [ 6- 8].
Players from a high-standard (n = 15) and a low-standard (n = 16) junior rugby league team had lower body neuromuscular fatigue, perceptual wellbeing, and blood creatine kinase (CK) assessed over an intensified competition.
Reducing or preventing one wellbeing difficulty, such as fatigue, may have a multitude of benefits on other aspects of a parent's life.
The FIQ is a 10-item instrument with good reliability and validity, that measures physical impairment, wellbeing, missed work, pain, fatigue, rest, stiffness, anxiety and depression [ 15].
This 10-item instrument measures physical functioning, work status, depression, anxiety, sleep, pain, stiffness, fatigue, and wellbeing on a rating-structured questionnaire, yielding scores between 0 and 80 points.
There is a considerable rationale for promoting multimodal exercise interventions to improve physical capacity, vitality, and physical and mental wellbeing, and to relieve fatigue during chemotherapy; thereby supporting cancer patients' daily living activities.
To assess the construct of the PASS concept, the contribution of demographic (age, sex, and disease duration) and clinical variables (CDAI), functional disability (ROAD), and other PRO measures (pain, fatigue, emotional wellbeing, sleep disturbance, or PTGA) to attainment of a PASS condition was analyzed by stepwise logistic regression.
