Song Sang-Wook, Kang Sung-Goo, Kim Kyung-Soo, Kim Moon-Jong, Kim Kwang-Min, Cho Doo-Yeoun, Kim Young-Sang, Joo Nam-Seok, Kim Kyu-Nam
Department of Family Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
Department of Family Medicine, CMC Clinical Research Coordinating Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Pain Res Manag. 2018 May 9;2018:3152142. doi: 10.1155/2018/3152142. eCollection 2018.
A nonspecific symptom, fatigue accompanies a variety of diseases, including cancer, and can have a grave impact on patients' quality of life. As for multidimensional instruments, one of the most widely used is the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI). This study aims to verify the reliability and validity of the MFI Korean (MFI-K) version.
This study was performed at four university hospitals in the Republic of Korea. Among outpatients visiting the Department of Family Medicine, those complaining of fatigue or visiting a chronic care clinic were enrolled in this study. A total of 595 participants were included, and the mean age was 42.2 years.
The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the MFI-K was 0.88. The MFI-K had good convergent validity. Most subscales of the MFI-K were significantly correlated with the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS). In particular, general and physical fatigue had the greatest correlation with the VAS and FSS. Although the English version of MFI had five subscales, the factor analysis led to four subscales in the Korean version.
This study demonstrated the clinical usefulness of MFI-K instrument, particularly in assessing the degree of fatigue and performing a multidimensional assessment of fatigue.
疲劳是一种非特异性症状，伴随包括癌症在内的多种疾病出现，会对患者的生活质量产生严重影响。至于多维评估工具，使用最广泛的之一是多维疲劳量表（MFI）。本研究旨在验证MFI韩语版（MFI-K）的信度和效度。
本研究在韩国的四家大学医院进行。在前往家庭医学科就诊的门诊患者中，纳入那些主诉疲劳或前往慢性病护理诊所就诊的患者。共纳入595名参与者，平均年龄为42.2岁。
MFI-K的克朗巴哈系数为0.88。MFI-K具有良好的收敛效度。MFI-K的大多数分量表与视觉模拟量表（VAS）和疲劳严重程度量表（FSS）显著相关。特别是，总体疲劳和身体疲劳与VAS和FSS的相关性最大。虽然MFI英文版有五个分量表，但因子分析得出韩语版有四个分量表。
本研究证明了MFI-K工具的临床实用性，特别是在评估疲劳程度和对疲劳进行多维评估方面。
