Table 1.

Demographic Details of Participating Patients

Identification	Sex	Age, Years	Marital Status	Deprivation Index^a	Months Since CFS/ME Diagnosis
CFS/ME = Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis. FINE = Fatigue Intervention by Nurses.
Note: All patients referred to the FINE Trial and recruited to this qualitative study were white British.
^a Townsend P, Philmore P, Beattie A. Health Deprivation: Inequality and the North. London: Croom Helm; 1988.
P1	Female	25	Single	13	12
P2	Female	32	Single	7	1
P3	Male	43	Married	−5	39
P4	Female	55	Cohabiting	3	226
P5	Male	55	Single	5	140
P6	Female	52	Married	7	36
P7	Female	35	Married	−4	1
P8	Female	51	Married	−4	25
P9	Male	41	Single	7	18
P10	Male	37	Married	13	3
P11	Male	39	Married	−4	57
P12	Male	63	Married	0	10
P13	Male	44	Separated	−5	151
P14	Female	54	Divorced	−4	42
P15	Male	42	Married	−3	57
P16	Female	38	Single	−2	4
P17	Female	56	Married	−3	168
P18	Female	42	Married	1	59
P19	Female	59	Single	6	180
P20	Male	61	Married	−3	144
P21	Male	37	Married	4	1
P22	Female	78	Married	−3	240
P23	Female	60	Widowed	2	27
P24	Male	56	Married	−4	120