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Explaining fatigue: An examination of patient causal attributions and their (in)congruence with family doctors’ initial causal attributions

Iris NijrolderDepartment of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Stephanie S LeoneDepartment of Public Mental Health, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Henriette E van der HorstDepartment of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]

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**Table 1. An overview of the type causal attributions for fatigue provided by GPs and patients in a cohort of patients presenting to the GP with fatigue (n = 642 cases).**

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Table 2. Number of causes mentioned by patients who reported at least one causal attribution for their fatigue (n = 567) categorised in order of importance (i.e. top three causes).

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Table 3. A comparison of the first reported causal attribution of patients (rows) and GPs (columns), for the same episode of fatigue (i.e. patient–GP pairs; n = 516)^a.

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Explaining fatigue: An examination of patient causal attributions and their (in)congruence with family doctors’ initial causal attributions

**Table 1. An overview of the type causal attributions for fatigue provided by GPs and patients in a cohort of patients presenting to the GP with fatigue (n = 642 cases).**

Table 2. Number of causes mentioned by patients who reported at least one causal attribution for their fatigue (n = 567) categorised in order of importance (i.e. top three causes).

Table 3. A comparison of the first reported causal attribution of patients (rows) and GPs (columns), for the same episode of fatigue (i.e. patient–GP pairs; n = 516)^a.

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Table 1. An overview of the type causal attributions for fatigue provided by GPs and patients in a cohort of patients presenting to the GP with fatigue (n = 642 cases).

Table 2. Number of causes mentioned by patients who reported at least one causal attribution for their fatigue (n = 567) categorised in order of importance (i.e. top three causes).

Table 3. A comparison of the first reported causal attribution of patients (rows) and GPs (columns), for the same episode of fatigue (i.e. patient–GP pairs; n = 516)a.

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**Table 1. An overview of the type causal attributions for fatigue provided by GPs and patients in a cohort of patients presenting to the GP with fatigue (n = 642 cases).**

Table 3. A comparison of the first reported causal attribution of patients (rows) and GPs (columns), for the same episode of fatigue (i.e. patient–GP pairs; n = 516)^a.