ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2020
Psychometric properties of a short version of Lee Fatigue Scale used as a generic PROM in persons with stroke or osteoarthritis: assessment using a Rasch analysis approach.
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Psycho-Social Well Being Following Stroke - A Randomized Controlled Trial
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Psychometric validation of the Indonesian verbal abuse questionnaire (I-VAQ) for adolescents using rasch analysis.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Validation of a short version of the Lee fatigue scale in adults living in Norway: a cross-sectional population survey.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Key considerations to reduce or address respondent burden in patient-reported outcome (PRO) data collection.Nature communications · 2022Review
- Prediction of evening fatigue severity in outpatients receiving chemotherapy: less may be more.Fatigue : biomedicine, health & behavior · 2021Article
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundFatigue is a common symptom associated with a wide range of diseases and needs to be more thoroughly studied. To minimise patient burden and to enhance response rates in research studies, patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) need to be as short as possible, without sacrificing reliability and validity. It is also important to have a generic measure that can be used for comparisons across different patient populations. Thus, the aim of this secondary analysis was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Norwegian 5-item version of the Lee Fatigue Scale (LFS) in two distinct patient populations.
methodsThe sample was obtained from two different Norwegian studies and included patients 4-6 weeks after stroke (n = 322) and patients with osteoarthritis on a waiting list for total knee arthroplasty (n = 203). Fatigue severity was rated by five items from the Norwegian version of the LFS, rating each item on a numeric rating scale from 1 to 10. Rasch analysis was used to evaluate the psychometric properties of the 5-item scale across the two patient samples.
resultsThree of the five LFS items ("tired", "fatigued" and "worn out") showed acceptable internal scale validity as they met the set criterion for goodness-of-fit after removal of two items with unacceptable goodness-of-fit to the Rasch model. The 3-item LFS explained 81.6% of the variance, demonstrated acceptable unidimensionality, could separate the fatigue responses into three distinct severity groups and had no differential functioning with regard to disease group. The 3-item version of the LFS had a higher separation index and better internal consistency reliability than the 5-item version.
conclusionsA 3-item version of the LFS demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties in two distinct samples of patients, suggesting it may be useful as a brief generic measure of fatigue severity.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov: NCT02338869; registered 10/04/2014 (stroke study).
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