Ghent University. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
The presented research focuses on the role of sleep in patients with hitherto insufficiently explained chronic fatigue or presumed chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). It aims at exploring:
- the diagnostic categories of patients with unexplained chronic fatigue through systematic clinical analysis
- the existing literature on sleep in CFS
- subjective sleep parameters and sleep quality in CFS patients
- the objective sleep measures and subjective sleep parameters in a large sample of patients with unexplained chronic fatigue and their mutual correlation
- the interrelationship of self-report questionnaires on different dimensions in the construct of chronic fatigue and CF
