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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a prevalent and disabling condition that involves six or more months of unexplained fatigue severe enough to interfere with previous levels of occupational, educational, and/or social performance. The fatigue is accompanied by at least four of eight additional physical and cognitive symptoms (Fukuda et al., 1994). This paper conceptualizes the multiple factors that affect occupational adaptation in persons with CFS. The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) if used as a framework for understanding the synergistic and evolving relationships between motivation, roles, habits, performance capacities, and the environment as they influence individuals with CFS. Examples from the literature, autobiographical accounts, and from practice experience are used to illustrate the experience and impact of CFS on everyday life.

Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a prevalent and disabling condition that involves six or more months of unexplained fatigue severe enough to interfere with previous levels of occupational, educational, and/or social performance. The fatigue is accompanied by at least four of eight additional physical and cognitive symptoms (Fukuda et al., 1994). This paper conceptualizes the multiple factors that affect occupational adaptation in persons with CFS. The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) if used as a framework for understanding the synergistic and evolving relationships between motivation, roles, habits, performance capacities, and the environment as they influence individuals with CFS. Examples from the literature, autobiographical accounts, and from practice experience are used to illustrate the experience and impact of CFS on everyday life.

Environmental noise is at the present time a cause of concern, for the serious nuisance that it causes, and also the effects on health and behavior of individuals, on human activities, as well as for the psychological and social consequences. Hospital centers are places where numerous factors of quality and degradation can affect the recovery of patients. Knowing the acoustical conditions in some of the main hospitals of the city will make it possible to suggest measures to assist the present problem. We sampled 7 hospitals. The measurement points were selected at corners and at representative points or areas of pedestrian and vehicular entrance, a minimum of 4 points per block. We detected critical points of environmental noise in the vicinity of the hospitals, that require urgent attention. Some of the critical levels of noise were for LEQ, 93.4 and averages of this around 84.63 and maximum levels of 114.2, caused by an ambulance siren.

Date Presented 4/9/2016 We present the implementation and evaluation of a family-centered, participation-oriented intervention for Latino immigrant families with preschool age children with autism spectrum disorder. Our presentation holds lessons for individual practitioners, and the occupational therapy field, to work with diverse, underserved groups. Primary Author and Speaker: Mansha Mirza Additional Author and Speaker: Sandra Magaña Contributing Authors: Ashley Stoffel, Esmeralda Vazquez