Examining fatigue in COPD: development, validity and reliability of a modified version of FACIT-F scale

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Al shair, Khaled ^a,b   Muellerova, Hana ^c   Yorke, Janelle ^a   Rennard, Stephen I ^d   Wouters, Emiel F M ^e   Hanania, Nicola A ^f   Sharafkhaneh, Amir ^f   Vestbo, Jørgen ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HADHRAMOUT UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Exercise capacity; Fatigue; Health status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC ILLNESS THERAPY FATIGUE SCALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RASCH ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84868615770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-100     Document Type: Article

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