Cancer Fatigue Scale--German Version

Reliance on God's Help, Depression and Fatigue in Female Cancer Patients

“…Because fatigue may often occur as depression [20], we measured anxiety and depression with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [24,25], and differentiated physical, cognitive and affective fatigue with the cancer fatigue scale (CFS-D) [26]. For this CFS-D, a maximal sum score of 60 could be achieved (score ³ 30 represent fatigue, scores between 23 and 29 represent possible fatigue, while scores £ 22 are without any relevance).…”

“…Escape from illness (> 60%) was found in 17% of patients (mean 73.0 ± 7.5, as compared to 17.1 ± 11.9). Intermediate fatigue scores were found in 26% of patients (sum score [23][24][25][26][27][28][29] and higher fatigue scores (sum score = 30) in 37%, while 37% had no fatigue symptoms (sum score = 22).…”

ACCEPT®: A Complementary Anthroposophical Program for the Palliative Treatment of Lung Cancer – Rationale and a Randomized Feasibility Study

“…Various parameters relating to QoL are recorded. Effects of the multimodal therapy were assessed at 4 time points (T0-T3) where the participants were asked to fill out the following question- naires: as the main variable FACT-L (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy for Lung Cancer [52]) was used; as secondary variables served CFS-D (Cancer Fatigue Scale [53]), PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index [54]), HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [55]), a shortened, nonvalidated version of the IPQR (Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised [56]), a shortened, nonvalidated version of the F-SozU (Social Support Questionnaire [57]), PAF (Progression Anxiety Questionnaire [58]), a nonvalidated instrument FEAV (Fear Avoidance Questionnaire [59]), and self-regulation according to Großarth-Maticek [60] (Fig. 3).…”