Psychometric qualities of a brief self-rated fatigue measure

Michielsen, Helen J.; Vries, Jolanda De; Heck, G.L. van

doi:10.1016/s0022-3999(02)00392-6

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“…The relationship between depressive symptoms and fatigue has often been found because fatigue is one of the symptoms of depression. However, in the present study, items of the CES-D and the FAS loaded on two different factors (data not shown), as in the development phase of the FAS [19]. This is in line with a study on BC survivors [5], in which fatigue, instead of being secondary to depression, cooccurred with depression as part of a coordinated response elicited by cytokine actions of the central nervous system.…”

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“…The Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS; [19]) is a fatigue questionnaire consisting of ten items: five questions reflecting physical fatigue and five questions assessing mental fatigue. Although these two aspects of fatigue are represented in the questionnaire, the FAS was unidimensional when completed by a Dutch working population and a representative group of the general population [19,20], as well as in sarcoidosis patients [10,21].…”

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“…Although these two aspects of fatigue are represented in the questionnaire, the FAS was unidimensional when completed by a Dutch working population and a representative group of the general population [19,20], as well as in sarcoidosis patients [10,21]. The unidimensional structure indicates that the FAS total score should be used.…”

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Personality and fatigue in patients with benign or malignant breast disease

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Steeg

Roukema

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Goals of work The aim of the study was to examine the role of five general personality traits in fatigue in a group of patients with breast cancer (BC) and a group with benign breast problems (BBP). Materials and methods Of the 304 participating women, 127 patients had BC and 177 BBP. A fatigue scale was completed before diagnosis and 1, 3, and 6 months after diagnosis (benign patients) or surgical treatment (BC patients). A personality questionnaire (NEO-FFI) and a depression scale (CES-D) were completed before diagnosis. Main results The BC group was less tired before diagnosis, more tired 1 month after diagnosis, and equally tired 3 and 6 months after diagnosis. In the total group, women were more tired over time when they were more neurotic, less agreeable, or more introverted. After controlling for depressive symptoms, demographics, and medical factors, baseline depressive symptoms (β=0.29, p<0.05), neuroticism (β=0.29, p<0.05), and extraversion (β=−0.25, p< 0.05) predicted fatigue 6 months later. After also including baseline fatigue, only neuroticism (β=0.22, p<0.05) and baseline fatigue (β=0.79, p<0.001) predicted fatigue.Conclusions Personality is more strongly related to fatigue than demographics, the diagnosis cancer, receiving cancer treatment, and baseline depressive symptoms and fatigue. When replicated, screening and treating women who are at risk to experience high levels of fatigue is recommended.

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Personality and fatigue in patients with benign or malignant breast disease

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“…In a subset of these patients, fatigue was assessed at 1 month, 3 months, and 1 year after stroke using the Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS). The FAS has been validated in healthy cohorts [71]. FAS scores of 10-21 indicate that the patient is "not tired", scores of 22-34 indicate that the patient is "tired", and scores of [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] indicate that the patient is "very tired" [72].…”

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Inflammation and the Silent Sequelae of Stroke

Becker

2016

Neurotherapeutics

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Depression and fatigue are common after stroke and negatively impact the quality of life of stroke survivors. The biological bases of these symptoms are unknown, but an abundance of data point to a role for inflammation. This review highlights evidence supporting the contribution of inflammation to poststroke depression and poststroke fatigue. Potential treatments for poststroke depression and poststroke fatigue are explored, with a special emphasis on those that modulate the immune response.

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“…The validation coefficients for FS, using an arbitrary cut-off score of 3/4 and the total Checklist Individual Strength questionnaire (CIS) score, are 75.5 for sensitivity and 74.5 for specificity. The tenitem Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS) 8) was developed using large samples from the Dutch working and general populations. The items were selected from an initial item pool consisting of forty items taken from existing fatigue questionnaires (including FS and CIS) and represent physical (five items) and mental (five items) fatigues.…”

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Development of Japanese Version of the Checklist Individual Strength Questionnaire in a Working Population

Aratake

Tanaka

Wada

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Journal of Occupational Health

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Development of Japanese Version of the Checklist Individual Strength Questionnaire in a Working Population: Yutaka Aratake, et al. Department of Occupational Mental Healthl, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kitasato University—The aims of the present study were to develop and validate the Japanese version of the checklist individual strength questionnaire (CIS) which is used to measure prolonged fatigue not only in the general population but also in the working population. We obtained permission to use CIS from its author and translated the questionnaire into Japanese. Then, the Japanese version of the questionnaire was translated back into English by a bilingual person. The author of the original version agreed that the back‐translated version was conceptually and linguistically equivalent to the original CIS. To validate CIS, 399 workers (66.7% were men) from different companies answered the Japanese version of the CIS (CIS‐J), Maslach burnout inventory‐general survey (MBI‐GS), Beck Depression Inventory‐II (BDI‐II), visual analogue scale (VAS) questionnaires for subjective fatigue, number of overtime hours and number of hours of sleep. Cronbach's α for the total CIS‐J score was 0.91. The test‐retest reliability assessed with an intra‐class correlation coefficient was 0.82. Although confirmatory factor analysis did not show an ideal model fit, the correlation coefficients between the total CIS score and the MBI‐GS exhaustion score, the BDI‐II score and the VAS score were 0.58 (p<0.01), 0.66 (p<0.01) and 0.63 (p<0.01), respectively. The less workers slept and the longer they worked, the higher their total CIS score became. CIS‐J showed good reliability and acceptable validity in the working population. Thus, it could be useful for studying fatigue among Japanese working populations.

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Psychometric qualities of a brief self-rated fatigue measure

Cited by 631 publications

References 28 publications

Personality and fatigue in patients with benign or malignant breast disease

Personality and fatigue in patients with benign or malignant breast disease

Inflammation and the Silent Sequelae of Stroke

Development of Japanese Version of the Checklist Individual Strength Questionnaire in a Working Population

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