Psychometric Properties of the Brief Fatigue Inventory in Greek Patients with Advanced Cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 367-373

  Mystakidou, Kyriaki ^a   Tsilika, Eleni ^a   Parpa, Efi ^a   Mendoza, Tito R ^b   Pistevou Gombaki, Kyriaki ^c   Vlahos, Lambros ^a   Cleeland, Charles S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

cancer quality of life; Fatigue; symptom distress

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; OPIATE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 52049121670     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.10.021     Document Type: Article

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