Winstead-Fry P
University of Vermont, School of Nursing, Burlington 05405-0068, USA.
J Nurs Meas. 1998 Winter;6(2):111-22.
There are differences between rural and urban persons experiencing cancer that may make the experience of fatigue more difficult for rural cancer patients. There were no scale to measure fatigue that had been validated with rural cancer patients. The purpose of the present research was to study the psychometric properties of four fatigue scales for use with rural cancer patients. The four scales were the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue Scale, the Fatigue Severity Scale, the Visual Analogue Scale for Fatigue, and the Rhoten Fatigue Scale. The four scales were mailed to 270 rural cancer patients, with 131 usable scales returned (48% return rate). Interitem correlations, Cronbach's alpha reliability, and factor analyses were performed on the four scales. Based on these analyses, the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue Scale, the Fatigue Severity Scale, and the Visual Analogue Scale for Fatigue were judged to be adequate for use with rural cancer patients.
农村和城市癌症患者之间存在差异，这可能使农村癌症患者更容易感到疲劳。目前还没有经过农村癌症患者验证的用于测量疲劳的量表。本研究的目的是研究四种疲劳量表用于农村癌症患者时的心理测量特性。这四种量表分别是疲劳多维评估量表、疲劳严重程度量表、疲劳视觉模拟量表和罗滕疲劳量表。将这四种量表邮寄给270名农村癌症患者，共收回131份可用量表（回收率为48%）。对这四种量表进行了项目间相关性、克朗巴赫α信度和因子分析。基于这些分析，疲劳多维评估量表、疲劳严重程度量表和疲劳视觉模拟量表被判定适用于农村癌症患者。
