Experiences of fatigue in daily life of people with acquired brain injury: a qualitative study.

Conclusions: This study highlights complex interactions that potentially mitigate the impact of fatigue on everyday life. Educational and self-management approaches to fatigue need to account for different types of fatigue in the contexts of an individual's daily activity. Assessment of fatigue should capture in-the-moment experiences of different types of fatigue and activity. Social support and participation in meaningful activities may help individuals to break the negative cycle of fatigue and inactivity.Implications for rehabilitationAssessment of fatigue after brain injury should capture the multidimensional nature of fatigue as well as contextual information about exacerbating activities and environments.Development of personalised coping strategies that account for perceived triggers of different subtypes of fatigue may help ABI survivors to broaden their activity and social participation.Social support and opportunities to participate in personally meaningful activities may help prevent or break a negative cycle of fatigue and inactivity for some ABI survivors.
PMID: 32017641 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - February 3, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Ezekiel L, Field L, Boulton M Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research