title: Evaluating the cancer related fatigue by children, mothers, and nurses in Turkish pediatric oncology patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aims of this study were to evaluate cancer related fatigue by children', mothers', and nurses' perspectives in recently diagnosed pediatric oncology patients, to evaluate levels of agreement between the fatigue scales, and to evaluate the relationships between fatigue and sample characteristics.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample of this cohort, descriptive, correlational study consisted of 26 recently cancer diagnosed children between the ages of 7 and 12, receiving inpatient treatment in pediatric oncology/hematology units, their mothers and their nurses. The data about children's fatigue were collected using the Child Fatigue Scale-24 h, Parent Fatigue Scale-24 h and Staff Fatigue Scale-24 h, for two consecutive days in the second and third weeks of the patient's first chemotherapy treatment cycle.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean scores of the Child Fatigue Scale-24 h showed the children's fatigue to be at a moderate level, a statistically significant difference was found between the CFS-24 h and PFS-24 h mean scores in the first and second measurement (p < 0.05). The Intraclass correlation showed a good agreement between scales and repeated measurements for these scales.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Fatigue in recently diagnosed cancer patients is an important symptom which is of particular concern to the children, their parents and nurses. The study showed that these three scales can be used alone an also used simultaneously, and also proved that these scales are reliable for repeated measurements.
authors.affiliation: Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Pediatric Nursing Department, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. Electronic address: haticebalyilmaz@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Hatice Bal
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.affiliation: Ege University Faculty of Nursing, Pediatric Nursing Department, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. Electronic address: gulcinozalp@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Gülçin Özalp
authors.initials: GÖ
authors.lastname: Gerçeker
authors.affiliation: Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Fethiye Health School, Pediatric Nursing Department, Fethiye, Muğla, Turkey. Electronic address: goncamuslu@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Gonca Karayağız
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Muslu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005221:Fatigue / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D009740:Nursing Staff; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cancer; Child; Fatigue; Mother; Nurse