Validation evidence for the French Canadian adaptation of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory as a measure of cancer-related fatigue

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 143-154

  Fillion, Lise ^a   Gélinas, Céline ^a   Simard, Sébastien ^a   Savard, Josée ^a   Gagnon, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fatigue measurement; French; MFI; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0037382629     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200304000-00008     Document Type: Article

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