Fatigue in the General Korean Population: Application and Normative Data of the Brief Fatigue Inventory

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-267

  Yun, Young Ho ^a   Lee, Myung Kyung ^a   Chun, Han Na ^a   Lee, Young Mi ^a   Park, Sang Min ^a   Mendoza, Tito R ^b   Wang, Xin Shelley ^b   Cleeland, Charles S ^b  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brief Fatigue Inventory; Fatigue; general population; normative data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRIEF FATIGUE INVENTORY; COMORBIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL VALUE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PSYCHOMETRY; SOUTH KOREA;

ADULT; AGED; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 49549094509     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.10.016     Document Type: Article

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