期刊
HEALTHCARE
卷 9, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9050553
关键词
ME/CFS; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; severely and very severely ill; trauma; grief; chronic illness; fatigue; suicide; stress; uncertainty
This article examines the suffering experienced by patients with ME/CFS through the lens of the Fennell Four-Phase Model, highlighting the impact of severity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and chronicity on the patient's experience. The importance of health care providers understanding and responding to the intense suffering of severely and very severely affected patients is underscored. Recommendations are provided for clinicians treating ME/CFS patients.
People who are severely and very severely affected by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) experience profound suffering. This suffering comes from the myriad of losses these patients experience, the grief that comes from these losses, the ongoing stigma that is often experienced as a person with a poorly understood, controversial chronic illness, and the trauma that can result from how other people and the health care community respond to this illness. This review article examines the suffering of patients with ME/CFS through the lens of the Fennell Four-Phase Model of chronic illness. Using a systems approach, this phase framework illustrates the effects of suffering on the patient and can be utilized to help the clinician, patient, family, and caregivers understand and respond to the patient's experiences. We highlight the constructs of severity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and chronicity and their role in the suffering endured by patients with ME/CFS. A composite case example is used to illustrate the lives of severely and very severely affected patients. Recommendations for health care providers treating patients with ME/CFS are given and underscore the importance of providers understanding the intense suffering that the severely and very severely affected patients experience.
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