Validation of the Portuguese version of Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Fatigue (FACT-F) in Brazilian cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-490

  Ishikawa, Neli Muraki ^a   Thuler, Luiz Claudio Santos ^b   Giglio, Alessandra Grasso ^a   Da Rocha Baldotto, Clarissa Seródio ^a   De Andrade, Carlos José Coelho ^a   Derchain , Sophie Françoise Mauricette ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; FACT F.; Fatigue.; Quality of life.; Questionnaire.

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EMOTION; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY FATIGUE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WELLBEING; FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; QUESTIONNAIRE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952489330     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0697-0     Document Type: Article

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