Validity and reliability of Persian version of Modified Fatigue Impact Scale (MFIS) questionnaire in Iranian patients with multiple sclerosis

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 1509-1512

  Ghajarzadeh, Mahsa ^a   Jalilian, Rozita ^a   Eskandari, Ghazaleh ^a   Ali Sahraian, Mohammad ^b   Reza Azimi, Amir ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Modified Fatigue Impact Scale; Multiple sclerosis; Persian

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; EQUIPMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84881127257     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2012.742575     Document Type: Article

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