Attentional bias towards health-threat information in chronic fatigue syndrome

Ruihua Hou; Rona Moss-Morris; Brendan P. Bradley; Robert Peveler; Karin Mogg

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2008.03.008

Attentional bias towards health-threat information in chronic fatigue syndrome

Ruihua Hou, Rona Moss-Morris^*, Brendan P. Bradley, Robert Peveler, Karin Mogg

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University of Southampton

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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. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	47-50
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume	65
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2008.03.008
Publication status	Published - Jul 2008

Keywords

attentional bias
chronic fatigue syndrome
health-threat stimuli
visual probe task
ANXIETY
DEPRESSION
TRIAL
SCALE

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