Table 2 Module titles and specific subparts of the web-based CBT for patients with CFS
Module title | Content of module |
|---|---|
Getting started and goal setting | Psycho education about the cognitive-behavioural model of CFS and CBT, signing treatment contract and establish goals that if attained implies that a patient no longer has CFS. |
Regulate sleep-wake cycle | Regulating sleep-wake cycle i.e., fixed bedtimes, no sleeping or lying down during the day |
Helpful beliefs about fatigue | Formulate helpful beliefs |
| Â | Divert attention away from fatigue towards other activities and the environment |
How to communicate with others about CFS | Change the communication about CFS with significant others |
Gradually increasing my activities | Determine activity pattern |
| Â | Graded activity program for relative active patients (first spread activities evenly, followed by graded activity) |
| Â | Graded activity program for low active patient |
| Â | Pain: helpful beliefs for dealing with pain during graded activity |
| Â | Solve problems with the graded activity program |
Reaching my goals step by step | Work resumption |
| Â | Increase mental activities |
| Â | Increase social activities |
| Â | Achieve my goals step by step |
Evaluation and the future | Letting go of the rules of therapy (e.g., sleep in late, do a lot of activities from time to time) |
| Â | No longer being a CFS patient |
| Â | Having healthy levels of fatigue and learn how to stay healthy |