Fatigue in cancer patients: comparison with the general population and prognostic factors

Purpose The aims of this examination were to compare cancer patients’ fatigue burden with that of the general population, to identify clinical factors that are associated with fatigue, and to test psychometric properties of the fatigue questionnaire MFI-20 including the short-form MFI-10. Methods A...

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Published in:Supportive care in cancer 2020-09, Vol.28 (9), p.4517-4526
Main Authors: Hinz, Andreas, Weis, Joachim, Brähler, Elmar, Härter, Martin, Geue, Kristina, Ernst, Jochen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age groups
Aged
Analysis
Cancer
Cancer patients
Care and treatment
Fatigue
Fatigue - etiology
Female
Gender differences
Humans
Male
Medical prognosis
Medical research
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Medicine, Experimental
Middle Aged
Neoplasms - complications
Nursing
Nursing Research
Oncology
Original
Original Article
Pain Medicine
Prognosis
Psychometrics - methods
Rehabilitation Medicine
Surveys
Young Adult
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Summary:Purpose The aims of this examination were to compare cancer patients’ fatigue burden with that of the general population, to identify clinical factors that are associated with fatigue, and to test psychometric properties of the fatigue questionnaire MFI-20 including the short-form MFI-10. Methods A sample of 1818 German cancer patients was tested with the MFI-20. Results The study confirmed that the cancer patients demonstrate a high level of burden from fatigue. The effect size for the comparison between the cancer patients and a sample of the general population ( n  = 1993) was d  = 0.58 based on MFI-20 total scores. In the cancer patients’ sample, females reported slightly higher levels of fatigue than males did ( p  
ISSN:0941-4355
1433-7339
DOI:10.1007/s00520-019-05260-8