Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 38, Issue 4 , Pages 505-514 , October 2009

Evaluating Cognitive, Emotional, and Physical Fatigue Domains in Daily Practice by Single-Item Questions in Patients With Advanced Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Pragmatic Study

  • Florian Strasser, MD

      Affiliations

    • Oncological Palliative Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
    • Division of Oncology/Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Florian Strasser, MD, Oncological Palliative Medicine, Division of Oncology/Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine and Palliative Care Centre, Cantonal Hospital, Rorschacherstrasse, 9007 St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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  • Iris Müller-Käser, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Oncology/Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Daniel Dietrich, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Statistics Section, Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK), Bern, Switzerland

,Accepted 2 January 2009.

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    Two-factor model of physical and cognitive fatigue: rotated factor plot with positions of domain-SIFs and corresponding functional subscales of EORTC QLQ-C30 and FAQ. SIF: single-item fatigue: emotion

    Two-factor model of physical and cognitive fatigue: rotated factor plot with positions of domain-SIFs and corresponding functional subscales of EORTC QLQ-C30 and FAQ. SIF: single-item fatigue: emotional (SIFemot), cognitive (SIFcogn), and physical (SIFphys). FAQ: Fatigue Assessment Questionnaire domains: physical (FAQphys), cognitive (FAQcogn), and affective (FAQemot). EORTC: EORTC QLQ-C30 functional subscales: physical (EORTCphys), emotional (EORTCemot), and cognitive (EORTCcogn).

PII: S0885-3924(09)00632-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2008.12.009

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 38, Issue 4 , Pages 505-514 , October 2009

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