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Chronic fatigue syndrome in children and adolescents

General practitioners' experience of the problem and their views about its treatment

Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Frank Smith, Senior Lecturer in General Practice and Primary Care^*

Section of Child Mental Health, Department of General Psychiatry, Jenner Wing, St George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, Tooting, London SW17 0RE

See editorial pp. 193–194 and 198–202, this issue.

^* Correspondence

General practitioners in a south London health authority were sent a questionnaire about their experience and views concerning the treatment of childhood chronic fatigue syndrome. Most thought childhood chronic fatigue syndrome had a significant psychological component, but opinion was divided over referral to a psychiatrist. The involvement of self-help organisations was supported but the place of rest and exercise unclear. The optimum primary care management of childhood chronic fatigue syndrome needs to be established.

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