Age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of fatigue in a large hospital-based sample of cancer patients

BACKGROUND: The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of cancer-related fatigue in different groups of patients. METHODS: This was a prospective study in a cohort of N=1494 cancer patients investigating fatigue at three time points t1–t3 (t1: admi...

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Autores principales: Singer, S, Kuhnt, S, Zwerenz, R, Eckert, K, Hofmeister, D, Dietz, A, Giesinger, J, Hauss, J, Papsdorf, K, Briest, S, Brown, A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2011
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21750551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2011.251
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author Singer, S
Kuhnt, S
Zwerenz, R
Eckert, K
Hofmeister, D
Dietz, A
Giesinger, J
Hauss, J
Papsdorf, K
Briest, S
Brown, A
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Kuhnt, S
Zwerenz, R
Eckert, K
Hofmeister, D
Dietz, A
Giesinger, J
Hauss, J
Papsdorf, K
Briest, S
Brown, A
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description BACKGROUND: The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of cancer-related fatigue in different groups of patients. METHODS: This was a prospective study in a cohort of N=1494 cancer patients investigating fatigue at three time points t1–t3 (t1: admission to hospital, t2: discharge, t3: half a year after t1). Fatigue was measured with the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory. Age- and sex-adjusted norms were derived from a representative community sample of N=2037, using a cutoff at the 75th percentile. RESULTS: At admission to the hospital, 32% of the patients were classified as fatigued. At discharge, the overall prevalence rate was 40%, and at half a year after t1, prevalence was 34%. Fatigue prevalence rates differed according to tumour stage, site, age, and sex of the patients. CONCLUSION: The prevalence rates provided by this study can be used for the planning of research and clinical routine.
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spelling pubmed-31729082012-07-26 Age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of fatigue in a large hospital-based sample of cancer patients Singer, S Kuhnt, S Zwerenz, R Eckert, K Hofmeister, D Dietz, A Giesinger, J Hauss, J Papsdorf, K Briest, S Brown, A Br J Cancer Epidemiology BACKGROUND: The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of cancer-related fatigue in different groups of patients. METHODS: This was a prospective study in a cohort of N=1494 cancer patients investigating fatigue at three time points t1–t3 (t1: admission to hospital, t2: discharge, t3: half a year after t1). Fatigue was measured with the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory. Age- and sex-adjusted norms were derived from a representative community sample of N=2037, using a cutoff at the 75th percentile. RESULTS: At admission to the hospital, 32% of the patients were classified as fatigued. At discharge, the overall prevalence rate was 40%, and at half a year after t1, prevalence was 34%. Fatigue prevalence rates differed according to tumour stage, site, age, and sex of the patients. CONCLUSION: The prevalence rates provided by this study can be used for the planning of research and clinical routine. Nature Publishing Group 2011-07-26 2011-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3172908/ /pubmed/21750551 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2011.251 Text en Copyright © 2011 Cancer Research UK https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Epidemiology
Singer, S
Kuhnt, S
Zwerenz, R
Eckert, K
Hofmeister, D
Dietz, A
Giesinger, J
Hauss, J
Papsdorf, K
Briest, S
Brown, A
Age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of fatigue in a large hospital-based sample of cancer patients
title Age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of fatigue in a large hospital-based sample of cancer patients
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title_fullStr Age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of fatigue in a large hospital-based sample of cancer patients
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title_short Age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of fatigue in a large hospital-based sample of cancer patients
title_sort age- and sex-standardised prevalence rates of fatigue in a large hospital-based sample of cancer patients
topic Epidemiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172908/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2011.251
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