Quality criteria and user-friendliness in self-reported questionnaires on cancer-related fatigue: a review

J Clin Epidemiol. 2010 Jul;63(7):705-711, Carla Agasi-Idenburg, Miranda Velthuis, Harriet Wittink

ABSTRACT

ObjectiveCancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a distressing, persistent, subjective sense of tiredness or exhaustion that occurs in 70–100% of cancer patients. The purpose of this review was to provide an overview of the quality of research performed on existing CRF self-report questionnaires and compare their reported psychometric properties and user-friendliness.MethodsDatabase searches of CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Scopus, PEDro, and PsycINFO were undertaken to find published scales....

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