The term symptom burden is actually quite complex in its meaning. Overall, it refers to the impact of multiple symptoms on a person’s health and well-being, both physically and emotionally.
Symptom burden is especially complicated in ME/CFS because it can encompass the severity, frequency, & duration of symptoms, the number of symptoms a person experiences, how those symptoms impact function, and how many & which body systems are impacted. It can be challenging to measure all the facets of symptom burden in research, whether through patient-reported outcomes (i.e., surveys) or clinical assessments.
OMF’s team of researchers incorporates symptom burden into the portfolio of work in a variety of ways, spanning different methods of assessing function to analysis that clusters participants based on symptom burden. Read more about OMF’s research projects here.
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