Reliability and validity of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20) and the Rhoten Fatigue Scale among rural cancer outpatients.
Cancer patients typically experience fatigue while undergoing treatment for their disease. This study was an effort to identify a reliable and economical measure of fatigue. In particular, scores on the five subscales of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI-20) were analyzed for internal consistency and then correlated with scores on the Rhoten Fatigue Inventory to establish a measure of validity. Moderate-to-high Cronbach alphas coefficients were established for the General Fatigue subscale of the MFI-20 using a sample of 97 rural oncology outpatients (1). Partial associations with the Rhoten Fatigue Scale lend evidence to the validity of the MFI-20 measures.
Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, Iowa 50588, USA.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012423:Rural Health