Reliability and validity of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI- 20) and the Rhoten Fatigue Scale among rural cancer outpatients

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 370-373

  Schneider, Robert A ^a  

^a BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fatigue; MFI 20; Rhoten Fatigue Scale; Rural oncology

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOWA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 0031752672     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-199810000-00009     Document Type: Article

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