Validation of the Taiwanese Version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-59

  Lin, Chia Chin ^a   Chang, Ai Ping ^a   Chen, Mei Ling ^a   Cleeland, Charles S ^a   Mendoza, Tito R ^a   Wang, Xin Shelley ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brief Fatigue Inventory; Fatigue; reliability; sensitivity; validation; validity

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OUTPATIENT; OVARY CANCER; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH CANCER; TAIWAN; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

EID: 33745727168     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2005.12.019     Document Type: Article

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