Prediction of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in mothers of children with cancer based on empathy and experienced guilt, Afsari et al, 2020

John Mac

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Definitely not a recommendation:
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to predict the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in mothers of children with cancer based on their empathy and guilt.
The research method was correlational.
The statistical population included all mothers who had children diagnosed with cancer between summer and autumn of 2019 from among whom 87 mothers were studied using convenient sampling method with an internet survey.
The tools of this study were Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaire (IGQ-67), Interpersonal Response Questionnaire (IRI) and Chalder Chronic Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ-11).
The obtained data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression with SPSS21.
The results of the data analysis showed that chronic fatigue syndrome had a positive and significant relationship with general guilt and its dimensions; including survivor guilt, separation guilt, omnipotence guilt, and self-hate guilt, and with two dimensions of empathy; perspective and Imagination.
Also, the dimensions of omnipotence guilt and fantasy predicted 60/8 percent of variance of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
According to the role of guilt and empathy in chronic fatigue experience of mothers of children with cancer psychological interventions related to emotion regulation and management can play an important role in reducing psychological burnout.
http://www.ceciranj.ir/article_109277.html?lang=en
 
Here's my reaction after reading the abstract.

How dare they abuse the trust of mothers of sick children with this junk.
They are not diagnosing CFS, they are diagnosing understandable exhaustion with the multiply flawed Chalder questionnaire, and playing their nasty psychological games with the turmoil of emotions suffered by parents of sick children. As if they haven't suffered enough.
 
@dave30th, you got farther than me. I could find no publisher and no contact address for this journal, and the Iranian Council for Exceptional Children doesn't seem to exist if Google is to be believed (maybe I needed to search in Arabic?). The journal seems to be based out of Iran, many of the papers are authored by the editorial board members themselves, who are mainly at the University of Tehran.

It doesn't seem to be widely indexed (its not in Pubmed, for example).
 
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