Alghwiri Alia A, Almhdawi Khader A, Marchetti Gregory
Department of Physiotherapy, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2020 Nov;46:102596. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2020.102596. Epub 2020 Oct 21.
Fatigue is a common impairment in a wide range of disorders. Numerous fatigue scales have been designed in an attempt to quantify this impairment without any clear distinction between them. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a useful tool for content comparison of measurement scales.
To explore the content of generic fatigue scales using the ICF.
Twenty generic fatigue scales were identified and linked to the ICF by two health care professionals according to the established linking rules. The contents of the 20 scales were compared and the inter-rater agreement was estimated using kappa coefficients.
The content of generic fatigue scales varies and was found to focus mostly on body functions, activities and participation components of the ICF with a moderate to high degree of inter-observer agreement.
The content comparison of fatigue questionnaires would assist clinicians and researchers in selecting the most appropriate measurement for use and precisely analyze the results of these measurements.
疲劳是多种疾病中常见的损害。人们设计了许多疲劳量表，试图对这种损害进行量化，但它们之间没有明显区别。《国际功能、残疾和健康分类》（ICF）是用于测量量表内容比较的有用工具。
使用ICF探讨通用疲劳量表的内容。
确定了20种通用疲劳量表，并由两名医疗保健专业人员根据既定的关联规则将其与ICF相关联。比较了这20种量表的内容，并使用kappa系数估计了评分者间的一致性。
通用疲劳量表的内容各不相同，发现主要集中在ICF的身体功能、活动和参与部分，观察者间一致性程度为中度到高度。
疲劳问卷的内容比较将有助于临床医生和研究人员选择最合适的测量方法并精确分析这些测量结果。
