fatigue measurement scale

Abstract Study objectives: To evaluate the psychometric properties and clinical significance of a new scale for measuring daytime fatigue associated with insomnia: The Flinders Fatigue Scale (FFS). Methods: The 7-item FFS was used in two separate studies. Study 1 was an on-line validation study...

Abstract Background Fatigue is a common symptom in hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients recovering from COVID-19, but no fatigue measurement scales or questions have been validated in these populations. The objective of this study was to perform validity assessments of the fatigue severity...

Hi All, It's be really interested in what people's thoughts are for the most accurate fatigue scales that can be used in research studies? Ones that also give representation to PEM over time. The CFQ (chalder fatigue scale/ questionnaire) is often used but has serious limitations. The DePaul...

I am raising this topic for discussion because I think there are fundamental problems with the design and use of questionnaires in ME/CFS and other medical research. Questions for consideration: 1. Should questionnaires ever be used to draw conclusions about psychological factors affecting...

(Mods, do what you will with this.) This paper from 1998 is regularly cited in various papers as showing that the CFQ is a reliable measure for CFS research. But read beyond the abstract.......... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022399998000221 so they were...

Elbers, R.G., Rietberg, M.B., van Wegen, E.E.H. et al. (2012), Self-report fatigue questionnaires in multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and stroke: a systematic review of measurement properties, Qual Life Res (2012) 21: 925. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-011-0009-2 Abstract: Chalder...

Moderator note. Thread moved from: https://www.s4me.info/threads/persistent-fatigue-induced-by-interferon-alpha-a-novel-inflammation-based-proxy-model-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-2018-pariante-et-al.7050/page-19#post-130652 I get the impression that a key problem we're facing is that we don't...

The following list of studies and other papers could be helpful with regard to the claim that symptoms classified as 'fatigue' can't be measured objectively, or that potential objective measures are too unspecific. In the field of MS research, some people looked for objective measures...

Science for ME are pleased to announce that we have today submitted the following critique of the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire to the NIH/CDC review. All credit for this submission should go to the authors, we are very grateful for all their hard work. We have replicated the submission below...

General health *36-Item Short Form Survey Instrument (SF-36) Link to questionnaire Outcome measurement in functional somatic syndromes: SF-36 summary scores and some scales were not valid. Schröder A, Oernboel E, Licht RW, Sharpe M, Fink P. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2011 Link to article...