Validation of the Hindi version of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 (MFI-20) in Indian cancer patients.
OBJECTIVE
The present study was designed to validate the Hindi version of the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory-20 (MFI-20) in Indian oncology population.


METHODS
The original English version of the MFI-20 was translated into Hindi (hMFI-20) using the translation and back translation processes. The hMFI-20 was administered to 200 cancer patients. The item analysis for hMFI-20 was carried out using the corrected item-total correlation. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was employed to test whether the original factor structure of MFI-20 is confirmed for the hMFI-20. Further, convergent and discriminant validities were also tested. The reliability of the hMFI-20 was evaluated by computing composite reliability and Cronbach's α coefficient.


RESULTS
Corrected item-total correlation value for each of the items of hMFI-20 was greater than 0.6. Results of the CFA (comparative fit indices (CFI) = 0.91, root mean squared residual (RMR) = 0.04, root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) = 0.028, and χ (2) = 45.68, p > 0.05) indicated that the five-factor model provided a good fit to the data. The findings indicated that hMFI-20 has a good convergent (composite reliability (CR) >0.7; average variance extracted value (AVE) >0.5) and discriminant (maximum shared variance (MSV) < AVE; average shared variance (ASV) < AVE; square root of AVE > inter-factor correlations) validities. The Cronbach's α coefficient for the total hMFI-20 was 0.8 and was more than 0.7 for each of the five factors.


CONCLUSIONS
We conclude that the hMFI-20 has a high internal consistency and reasonable construct validity. Therefore, the hMFI-20 is a reliable and valid tool to assess the multidimensional fatigue in Indian oncology population. However, we recommend further validation of hMFI-20 in population of cancer patients of different linguistic settings and regions of India.
Chronobiology and Animal Behavior Laboratory, School of Studies in Life Sciences, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, 492010, India.
Priyanka
P
Chandel
Armiya
A
Sultan
Khan Abraruzzaman
KA
Khan
Vivek
V
Choudhary
Arti
A
Parganiha
D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005221:Fatigue / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations