Shah, Mansi, Kakar, Atul, Gogia, Atul · The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India · 2022 · DOI
This study created and tested a Hindi-language version of a tool that doctors use to diagnose ME/CFS. Researchers translated the original English diagnostic criteria into Hindi and verified that it works just as well for Hindi-speaking patients in India. This makes it easier for more people to be accurately identified and diagnosed with ME/CFS, rather than being told they simply have fatigue from long COVID.
Accurate diagnosis of ME/CFS is challenging in many countries, particularly where validated diagnostic tools exist only in English. This Hindi translation expands access to evidence-based diagnostic criteria for Indian patients and healthcare workers, enabling better identification of ME/CFS cases among those with long COVID and supporting large-scale epidemiological research in a multilingual country.
This study does not establish the prevalence of ME/CFS in post-COVID populations or prove that long COVID and ME are the same condition. It also does not demonstrate clinical outcomes or treatment efficacy—it only validates that the Hindi translation accurately measures the same diagnostic constructs as the English version. The small sample of bilingual individuals may not represent how the tool performs in monolingual Hindi speakers.
About the PEM badge: “PEM required” means post-exertional malaise was an explicit required diagnostic criterion for participant inclusion in this study — not that PEM was studied, observed, or discussed. Studies using criteria that do not require PEM (e.g. Fukuda, Oxford) are tagged “PEM not required”. How the atlas works →
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Primary citation
Shah, Mansi, Kakar, Atul, & Gogia, Atul (2022). The Hindi Version of International Consensus Criteria: A Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validation Study for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in Post-COVID Patients.. The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. https://doi.org/10.5005/japi-11001-0090
BibTeX
@article{mecfsatlas-shah-2022-hindi-version,
author = {Shah, Mansi and Kakar, Atul and Gogia, Atul},
title = {The Hindi Version of International Consensus Criteria: A Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validation Study for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in Post-COVID Patients.},
journal = {The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.5005/japi-11001-0090},
note = {PubMed: 37355868},
url = {https://www.mecfsatlas.com/evidence/shah-2022-hindi-version},
}Atlas snapshot reference
ME/CFS Atlas. Generator v1 / Scanner v1.4 / policy v0.1. Accessed 2026-05-27. https://www.mecfsatlas.com/evidence/shah-2022-hindi-version
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