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Table 4 Mean score on 4 factors: comparisons between fatigued disease-free cancer patients, CFS patients, employees with unexplained fatigue, fatigued patients with neuromuscular disease, fatigued patients with pancreatitis, non-fatigued disease-free cancer patients, non-fatigued patients with neuromuscular disease, non-fatigued patients with pancreatitis and healthy persons

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

 

Frustrating

Exhausting

Pleasant

Frightening

A. Fatigued disease-free cancer patients

48.6 (30.9)b,c

29.3 (28.6)b,d

11.7 (17.7)b,c

22.7 (24.2)d,e

B. Chronic fatigue syndrome

58.5 (32.2)a,d,e

37.8 (31.5)a,c,d,e

6.6 (13.0)a,c,d

25.2 (25.9)d,e

C. Employees with unexplained fatigue

63.7 (29.2)a,d,e

29.5 (28.1)b,d

4.3 (11.2)a,b,d,e

26.0 (26.6)d,e

D. Fatigued patients with neuromuscular disease

41.8 (32.6)b,c

17.8 (24.8)a,b,c

13.6 (18.5)b,c

13.8 (20.1)a,b,c

E. Fatigued patients with pancreatitis

41.1 (33.1)b,c

25.9 (29.8)b

9.1 (13.9)c

14.2 (22.7)a,b,c

F. Non-fatigued disease-free cancer patients

8.1 (16.3)

6.6 (14.4)g

38.9 (28.3)g

7.7 (17.0)

G. Non fatigued patients with neuromuscular disease

9.0 (16.2)

1.7 (7.1)f,h

24.7 (21.3)f,I

5.6 (13.9)

H. Non-fatigued patients with pancreatitis

13.3 (28.1)

9.4 (17.8)g

29.2(23.6)

5.2 (12.7)

I. Healthy persons

7.7 (18.3)

3.9 (13.4)

36.2 (23.3)g

3.2 (10.2)

  1. a. significantly different from group A, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  2. b. significantly different from group B, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  3. c. significantly different from group C, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  4. d. significantly different from group D, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  5. e. significantly different from group E, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  6. f. significantly different from group F, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  7. g. significantly different from group G, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  8. h. significantly different from group H, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01
  9. i. significantly different from group I, Mann-Whitney test p < 0.01