Cumulative life stress in chronic fatigue syndrome

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 318-320

  Nater, Urs M ^a,b   Maloney, Elizabeth ^a   Heim, Christine ^c   Reeves, William C ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic fatigue syndrome; Life events; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80052797733     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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