CFS: prevalence in human-to-human sphere workers, factors contributing to formation and its impact on health, 2020, Petrishcheva et al

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Chronic fatigue syndrome: prevalence in human-to-human sphere workers, factors contributing to formation and its impact on health
Nadezhda N. Petrishcheva 1 *
, Natalya B. Smirnova 2, Olga V. Parfenova 2, Irina M. Ryazantseva 2, Alla V. Ivanova 2, Olga A. Khoraskina 2, Marina Yu. Deryabina 2, Elena B. Pokaninova 3

1 Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov, Ulyanovsk, RUSSIA2 Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I.Y. Yakovlev, Cheboksary, RUSSIA3 I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, RUSSIA
* Corresponding Author

• Article Type: Research Article
• Eurasian Journal of Biosciences, 2020 - Volume 14 Issue 1, pp. 581-586
• Published Online: 11 Mar 2020
• Article Views: 59 | Article Download: 31

Abstract
The relevance of this article is to study such a social phenomenon as chronic fatigue syndrome in social work professionals. Any work activity in the man-man sphere has its own professional risks. The specificity of the social work specialist’s activity leads to the appearance and formation of chronic fatigue syndrome, and the lack of effective means of its prevention contributes to its significant spread and perception by social service employees as an inevitable concomitant effect of their professional activity. It is easier to prevent the occurrence and development of chronic fatigue syndrome than to deal with its consequences.

The aim of the article is to study the problem of prevention of chronic fatigue syndrome in social work professionals and identify means of prevention; to identify the relationship between the specifics of social work as a professional activity, professional requirements for a social work specialist and the risks that provoke chronic fatigue syndrome.

As a research method, we used a questionnaire survey as a method of collecting primary information that allows us to quickly and effectively investigate the features of the manifestation of chronic fatigue syndrome. The article considers the essence and features of the manifestation of social work professionals’ chronic fatigue syndrome.

Means of prevention of chronic fatigue syndrome in social services are indicated: organization of consultations of specialists in social work with an independent psychologist, conducting psychological training; conducting preventive examinations in social sphere organizations, issuing sanatorium vouchers for treatment and rehabilitation; organization of cultural events outside the institution, visiting theaters, concerts; formation of corporate culture for team cohesion and creating a psychologically comfortable microclimate.

It is shown that managers of social services underestimate the importance of the psychologist’s work with the workforce as a means of preventing chronic fatigue syndrome. In addition, one need to take into account such a moment that the social work specialists themselves do not feel very comfortable in consultations with a psychologist, an employee of the organization. They would rather have individual sessions with an independent psychologist. They would be interested in group sessions with a psychologist who does not work with them in the same organization.

 

[Trish]

The specificity of the social work specialist’s activity leads to the appearance and formation of chronic fatigue syndrome,

The solution - prevention using cultural activities and access to sessions with psychologists.

I think they are talking about stress/burnout, not CFS.

 

[Peter T]

I did not read the full article as it seemed a totally pointless exercise so I may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick, but it seems not to be a study relating in any way to people diagnosed with ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’, rather one looking at the perceptions of social workers.

How is it that people feel it acceptable to draw totally nonsense conclusion in relation to ME/CFS?

 

[ME/CFS Skeptic]

I think this study can be cited as an example of how the name chronic fatigue syndrome leads to misunderstanding.

I think both the authors and respondents wouldnt as eaily have confused fatigue, emotional distress and burnout with our illness if it was named myalgic encephalomyelitis or even systemic exertion imtolerance disease.