Validation of the fatigue severity scale in a Swiss cohort

Sleep

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1601-1607

  Valko, Philipp O ^a   Bassetti, Claudio L ^a   Bloch, Konrad E ^b   Held, Ulrike ^b   Baumann, Christian R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Multiple sclerosis; Reliability; Sleep; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATAPLEXY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NARCOLEPSY; PARASOMNIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SCALE UP; SELF REPORT; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 55549108735     PISSN: 01618105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sleep/31.11.1601     Document Type: Article

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