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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-00337-z
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- Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
- University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG the Netherlands), University Groningen
- Northern Provinces of the Netherlands
- Lung Foundation Netherlands [4.1.16.085]
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The study evaluated the prevalence of severe and chronic fatigue in individuals with and without chronic diseases, finding a higher prevalence in those with multiple chronic conditions. It also identified trans-diagnostic factors associated with fatigue, supporting the use of a trans-diagnostic approach.
(1) To evaluate the prevalence of severe and chronic fatigue in subjects with and without chronic disease; (2) to assess to which extent multi-morbidity contributes to severe and chronic fatigue; and (3) to identify predisposing and associated factors for severe and chronic fatigue and whether these are disease-specific, trans-diagnostic, or generic. The Dutch Lifelines cohort was used, including 78,363 subjects with (n = 31,039, 53 +/- 12 years, 33% male) and without (n = 47,324, 48 +/- 12 years, 46% male) >= 1 of 23 chronic diseases. Fatigue was assessed with the Checklist Individual Strength-Fatigue. Compared to participants without a chronic disease, a higher proportion of participants with >= 1 chronic disease were severely (23% versus 15%, p < 0.001) and chronically (17% versus 10%, p < 0.001) fatigued. The odds of having severe fatigue (OR [95% CI]) increased from 1.6 [1.5-1.7] with one chronic disease to 5.5 [4.5-6.7] with four chronic diseases; for chronic fatigue from 1.5 [1.5-1.6] to 4.9 [3.9-6.1]. Multiple trans-diagnostic predisposing and associated factors of fatigue were found, explaining 26% of variance in fatigue in chronic disease. Severe and chronic fatigue are highly prevalent in chronic diseases. Multi-morbidity increases the odds of having severe and chronic fatigue. Several trans-diagnostic factors were associated with fatigue, providing a rationale for a trans-diagnostic approach.
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