Validation of the Neurological Fatigue Index for stroke (NFI-Stroke)

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mills, Roger J ^a,e   Pallant, Julie F ^b   Koufali, Maria ^c   Sharma, Anil ^c   Day, Suzanne ^a   Tennant, Alan ^d   Young, Carolyn A ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c University Hospitals Aintree   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL PRESTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Multiple sclerosis; Rasch analysis; Scale; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROLOGICAL FATIGUE INDEX FOR STROKE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASCH ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SEX; STROKE PATIENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STROKE;

EID: 84860894547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-51     Document Type: Article

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