Differences in the experience of fatigue in patients and healthy controls: patients' descriptions

Table 5 Comparison of pre- and post treatment scores on the four factors. Comparison of the post treatment scores with those of healthy individuals

			Frustrating	Exhausting	Pleasant	Frightening
	Cancer survivors
A	non fatigued after CBT (n = 27)	pre-treatment	52.6 (27.8)	27.8 (24.4)	11.1 (14.0)	22.2 (23.3)
		post-treatment	11.9 (23.0)*	5.6 (20.0)*	36.3 (25.4)*	6.5 (11.2)*
B	still fatigued after CBT (n = 14)	pre-treatment	67.1 (27.9)	46.4 (30.8)	8.6 (17.0)	19.6 (24.4)
		post-treatment	58.6 (34.6)	33.9 (38.7)	7.1 (12.7)	12.5 (19.0)
	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients
C	non fatigued after CBT (n = 47	pre-treatment	60.4 (26.5)	42.0 (31.8)	4.7 (8.6)	20.2 (22.5)
		post-treatment	11.1 (18.1)*	3.2 (8.4)*	32.3 (30.5)*	5.9 (11.9)*
D	still fatigued after CBT (n = 35)	pre-treatment	57.7 (30.6)	44.3 (35.9)	5.1 (11.2)	24.3 (24.6)
		post-treatment	45.1 (31.2)	30.0 (33.1)	9.1 (17.0)	12.9 (15.3)*
	Healthy individuals		7.7 (18.3)^b,d	3.9 (13.4)^b,d	36.2 (23.3)^b,d	3.2 (10.2)^b,d

CBT = cognitive behaviour therapy
* significant difference between pre- and post treatment scores, Wilcoxon signed rank test p < 0.01
a. significantly different from post treatment scores of group A, Mann-Whitney-U test p < 0.01
b. significantly different from post treatment scores of group B, Mann-Whitney-U test p < 0.01
c. significantly different from post treatment scores of group C, Mann-Whitney-U test p < 0.01
d. significantly different from post treatment scores of group D, Mann-Whitney-U test p < 0.01

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