Validation of the Turkish version of the fatigue severity scale in patients with fibromyalgia

Rheumatology International

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-31

  Gencay Can, Asli ^a,b   Can, Serdar Suleyman ^b  

^a Kahramanmaras Devlet Hastanesi ^*  (Turkey)

^b Kahramanmaras State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Fibromyalgia; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE SEVERITY SCALE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FIBROMYALGIA IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TURKEY;

EID: 84857110959     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-010-1558-3     Document Type: Article

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