Cross-cultural study of information processing biases in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:comparison of Dutch and UK chronic fatigue patients

Purpose: This study aims to replicate a UK study, with a Dutch sample to explore whether attention and interpretation biases and general attentional control deficits in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), are similar across populations and cultures. Methods: Thirty eight Dutch CFS participants were compared to 52 CFS and 51 healthy participants recruited from the UK. Participants completed self-report measures of symptoms, functioning and mood; as well as three experimental tasks (i) Visual-Probe task measuring attentional bias to illness (somatic symptoms and disability) versus neutral words, (ii... Mehr ...