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A battery of psychometric instruments comprising the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Lazarus Ways of Coping (WoC) inventory, was administered to a sample of clinically-defined CFS sufferers (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 58), to a comparison group of chronic pain (CP) patients (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 81) and to a group of healthy controls matched for sex and age with the CFS sample (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>= 104). Considerable overlap was found between CFS and CP patients at the level of both physical and psychological symptoms. This raises the possibility that CFS sufferers are a sub-population of CP patients. 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