Attentional bias towards health-threat information in chronic fatigue syndrome
Attentional bias towards health-threat information in chronic fatigue syndrome
Objective
To investigate whether individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) show an attentional bias towards health-threat information.
Methods
Attentional bias (AB) was assessed in individuals with CFS and healthy controls using a visual probe task which presented health-threat and neutral words and pictures for 500 ms. Self-report questionnaires were used to assess CFS symptoms, depression, anxiety, and social desirability.
Results
Compared to a healthy control group, the CFS group showed an enhanced AB towards heath-threat stimuli relative to neutral stimuli. The AB was not influenced by the type of stimulus (pictures vs. words).
Conclusion
The finding of an AB towards health-threat information in individuals with CFS is supportive of models of CFS which underlie cognitive behavior therapy.
attentional bias, chronic fatigue syndrome, health-threat stimuli, visual probe task
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Hou, Ruihua
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Moss-Morris, Rona
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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Peveler, Robert
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Mogg, Karin
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July 2008
Hou, Ruihua
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Moss-Morris, Rona
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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Peveler, Robert
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Mogg, Karin
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Hou, Ruihua, Moss-Morris, Rona, Bradley, Brendan P., Peveler, Robert and Mogg, Karin
(2008)
Attentional bias towards health-threat information in chronic fatigue syndrome.
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 65 (1), .
(doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2008.03.008).
(PMID:18582611)
Abstract
Objective
To investigate whether individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) show an attentional bias towards health-threat information.
Methods
Attentional bias (AB) was assessed in individuals with CFS and healthy controls using a visual probe task which presented health-threat and neutral words and pictures for 500 ms. Self-report questionnaires were used to assess CFS symptoms, depression, anxiety, and social desirability.
Results
Compared to a healthy control group, the CFS group showed an enhanced AB towards heath-threat stimuli relative to neutral stimuli. The AB was not influenced by the type of stimulus (pictures vs. words).
Conclusion
The finding of an AB towards health-threat information in individuals with CFS is supportive of models of CFS which underlie cognitive behavior therapy.
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Published date: July 2008
Keywords:
attentional bias, chronic fatigue syndrome, health-threat stimuli, visual probe task
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Clinical Neuroscience
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Local EPrints ID: 72417
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/72417
ISSN: 0022-3999
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Date deposited: 12 Feb 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:52
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Rona Moss-Morris
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