TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of daily and weekly fatigue among African American cancer survivors
AU - Sobel-Fox, Rina M.
AU - McSorley, Anna Michelle M.
AU - Roesch, Scott C.
AU - Malcarne, Vanessa L.
AU - Hawes, Starlyn M.
AU - Sadler, Georgia Robins
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health grants: R25CA65745; P30 CA023100; U56CA92079/U56CA92081; U54CA132379/U54CA132384; and the National In-stitues of Health/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities University of California, San Diego Comprehensive Research Center in Health Disparities (P60 MD000220). The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
PY - 2013/7/1
Y1 - 2013/7/1
N2 - This investigation evaluates two common measures of cancer-related fatigue, one multidimensional/retrospective and one unidimensional/same day. Fifty-two African American survivors of diverse cancers completed fatigue visual analogue scales once daily, and the Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory-Short Form (MFSI-SF) once weekly, for four weeks. Zero-order correlations showed retrospective fatigue was significantly related to average, peak, and most recent same-day fatigue. Multilevel random coefficient modeling showed unidimensional fatigue shared the most variance with the MFSI-SF's General subscale for three weeks, and with the Vigor subscale for one week. Researchers and clinicians may wish to prioritize multidimensional measures when assessing cancer-related fatigue, if appropriate.
AB - This investigation evaluates two common measures of cancer-related fatigue, one multidimensional/retrospective and one unidimensional/same day. Fifty-two African American survivors of diverse cancers completed fatigue visual analogue scales once daily, and the Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory-Short Form (MFSI-SF) once weekly, for four weeks. Zero-order correlations showed retrospective fatigue was significantly related to average, peak, and most recent same-day fatigue. Multilevel random coefficient modeling showed unidimensional fatigue shared the most variance with the MFSI-SF's General subscale for three weeks, and with the Vigor subscale for one week. Researchers and clinicians may wish to prioritize multidimensional measures when assessing cancer-related fatigue, if appropriate.
KW - African American
KW - assessment
KW - cancer survivorship
KW - fatigue
KW - multilevel random coefficient modeling
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U2 - 10.1080/07347332.2013.798760
DO - 10.1080/07347332.2013.798760
M3 - Article
C2 - 23844922
AN - SCOPUS:84880300761
SN - 0734-7332
VL - 31
SP - 413
EP - 429
JO - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
JF - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
IS - 4
ER -
