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Friends Treatment Report
What is Friends? The support and presence of family and friends during illness can be quite valuable, even essential, to an overall feeling of well-being.
Reasons used
48 patients in the community are using or have used Friends.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Support another treatment | 11 | 22% |
| General health | 10 | 20% |
| Other | 7 | 14% |
| Depression | 6 | 12% |
| Frustration | 4 | 8% |
| support | 1 | 2% |
Other treatments patients are using for Support another treatment include Blood test, MRI, and Lumbar Puncture.
Duration
How long current patients have been using Friends or how long patients were using Friends before stopping.
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 5 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 50% | 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 50% | 1 |
Support another treatment
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 0% | 0 |
| Mild | 0% | 0 |
| None | 100% | 5 |
Summary results are based on 5 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 5)
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- sumbutterfly
- Pain: All
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: Most
- external_stress: Little
- Stickman: all
- Description:
- FM:3y Dx
- See profile
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by sumbutterfly
Mar 01, 2009
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- General health
- Advice/Tips
- Friends that understand are great,,,thank you ppl!
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
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- mstaz88
- Sex: F
- Pain: All
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: All
- Stickman: all
- Description:F39y
- FM:13y Dx
- See profile
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by mstaz88
Dec 18, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Frustration
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
Report created on November 08, 2009.