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How to best address issues related to respondent fatigue or participant burnout?

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How to best address issues related to respondent fatigue or participant burnout?   Fatigue Fatigue is a great problem.  In colloquial language, the term " fatigue " is used to refer to the feeling of tiredness after an effort, which can be of a diverse nature and generates demotivation for the continuation of that effort, whether intellectual, work-related. or sporty. Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted definition of fatigue , which makes its nature conceptually complex and ambiguous. Fatigue can be a consequence of physical or mental effort. This review will focus on fatigue as a state resulting from the practice of a physical-sports activity in which both types of effort are usually present and is associated with the training load (training stimulus that generates a breakdown of the body's homeostasis). and causes the activation of allostatic mechanisms that allow the state of functional balance to be recovered). The factors that cont...