Department of Psychology, Unit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Research Center for Behavior Assessment, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Disabil Rehabil. 2020 Jun;42(13):1906-1911. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2018.1539129. Epub 2019 Jan 23.
Fatigue has been shown to be one of the key factors that interfere in the quality of life of elderly individuals. In order to understand its impact and evaluate the efficacy of treatments that target fatigue, researchers and clinicians need psychometrically sound and easy to use assessment instruments. The aim of this work was to address this need by evaluating the comprehensibility and validity of the Silhouettes Fatigue Scale (SFS) in a sample of older individuals. A total of 70 older individuals participated in the study. Participants were interviewed individually and asked to rate their level of fatigue during the week before the interview using the SFS and the FACIT-Fatigue Scale (to help evaluate convergent validity), and respond to the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (to help evaluate discriminant validity). The results indicate that the SFS is understandable and that the scores have an adequate convergent validity and discriminant validity when used with older adults. The SFS is a valid measure of fatigue that can be used with older adults. It fills the need for a brief and easy to administer and score measure, which can be used in situations where assessment burden is a significant issue.Implications for rehabilitationFatigue is a significant problem among the elderly resulting in significant disability, and psychometrically sound and easy to use questionnaires are needed.The Silhouettes Fatigue Scale (SFS) is a new single-item self-report fatigue rating scale.Results show that the SFS is understandable, and that the scores have discriminant and convergent validity when used with older adults.As it does not use written items, it may be more easily understood by people who have basic or even no literacy level, thus making it easier to use for a wider audience.
疲劳已被证明是影响老年人生活质量的关键因素之一。为了了解其影响并评估针对疲劳的治疗效果，研究人员和临床医生需要使用具有良好心理测量学特性且易于使用的评估工具。这项工作的目的是通过评估老年人样本中 Silhouettes 疲劳量表 (SFS) 的理解性和有效性来满足这一需求。共有 70 名老年人参与了这项研究。研究对象接受了单独访谈，并要求他们使用 SFS 和 FACIT-Fatigue 量表（帮助评估收敛效度）来评估他们在访谈前一周的疲劳程度，并对疼痛灾难化量表（帮助评估判别效度）做出反应。结果表明，SFS 是可以理解的，并且当用于老年人时，其分数具有足够的收敛效度和判别效度。SFS 是一种有效的疲劳测量工具，可用于老年人。它满足了对简单、易于管理和评分的测量工具的需求，可用于评估负担是一个重要问题的情况。
康复意义
疲劳是老年人的一个严重问题，会导致严重的残疾，因此需要具有良好心理测量学特性且易于使用的问卷。
Silhouettes 疲劳量表 (SFS) 是一种新的单项目自我报告疲劳评分量表。
结果表明，SFS 是可以理解的，并且当用于老年人时，其分数具有判别和收敛效度。
由于它不使用书面项目，因此对于基本甚至没有读写能力的人来说，可能更容易理解，从而更容易为更广泛的受众使用。
