Expert Centre for Chronic Fatigue
The Expert Centre for Chronic Fatigue (ECCF) is a treatment facility and research centre for chronic fatigue. The ECCF is part of the Amsterdam UMC.
- The ECCF studies chronic fatigue and its determinants, develops interventions and investigates the mechanisms of change of evidence-based treatments for fatigue.
- The ECCF is also a treatment facility. Each year about 400 patiënts are referred for assessment and/or treatment of chronic fatigue. The interventions applied, mostly cognitive behavioural, are evidence based. Patients can follow individual face to face therapy, web-based therapy and group therapy. Different groups of patients are referred to the ECCF: patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), both adults and adolescents; patients with a chronic illness who suffer from severe fatigue and patients with cancer related fatigue.
Recent projects
- Chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of pain in the cognitive impairments of CFS/ME patients; an individual patient meta-analysis to study the effects of CBT for CFS/ME; a comparison of patients with Long-Covid and CFS/ME.
- Chronic fatigue in chronic illness and following infections: comparing the efficacy of face-to-face CBT and web-based CBT for chronic fatigue in MS; investigating determinants of chronic fatigue in Lyme’s disease; investigating the prevalence and determinants of fatigue in patients following COVID-19; a RCT testing the efficacy of CBT for severely fatigued patients following COVID-19.
- Cancer related fatigue: RCT testing the efficacy of personalized CBT for cancer related fatigue versus protocolized CBT; investigating the care need of patients with cancer related fatigue.
Collaborations
Our research group is a multidisciplinary collaboration of researchers and clinicians. The research group is based in the Amsterdam UMC, location University of Amsterdam.
More Information
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