Assessing Fatigue in Persons with Cancer: Further Validation of the Wu Cancer Fatigue Scale

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 255-265

  Wu, Horng Shiuann ^a   Wyrwich, Kathleen W ^a   McSweeney, Maryellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer related fatigue; instrument development; structural equation modeling; symptom assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHWATRZ CANCER FATIGUE SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WU CANCER FATIGUE SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748171143     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.06.001     Document Type: Article

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