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Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated

BACKGROUND: Cancer related fatigue (CRF) is a problem that is highly under reported, under recognized and thus, under treated. About 80% of patients receiving chemotherapy/radiotherapy experience CRF, making it the most common side effect of cancer treatment. Functional assessment of chronic illness...

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Autores principales: Kapoor, Akhil, Singhal, Mukesh Kumar, Bagri, Puneet Kumar, Narayan, Satya, Beniwal, Surender, Kumar, Harvindra Singh
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25839015
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.149942
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author Kapoor, Akhil
Singhal, Mukesh Kumar
Bagri, Puneet Kumar
Narayan, Satya
Beniwal, Surender
Kumar, Harvindra Singh
author_facet Kapoor, Akhil
Singhal, Mukesh Kumar
Bagri, Puneet Kumar
Narayan, Satya
Beniwal, Surender
Kumar, Harvindra Singh
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description BACKGROUND: Cancer related fatigue (CRF) is a problem that is highly under reported, under recognized and thus, under treated. About 80% of patients receiving chemotherapy/radiotherapy experience CRF, making it the most common side effect of cancer treatment. Functional assessment of chronic illness therapy fatigue (FACIT-F) version-4 is a 13 item questionnaire that has been used to measure the level of fatigue of cancer patients during their daily activities over the past 7 days. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 92 patients of age 18 years and above attending the oncology Out Patient Department (OPD) of a regional cancer center were recruited in this study and were given FACIT-F questionnaire. The relevant sociodemographic parameters were obtained from the medical records of the patients. The internal consistency of the 13 items was measured using the Cronbach's alpha. RESULTS: The Cronbach alpha coefficient for FACIT-F scale in our study was found to be 0.74. Kendall's coefficient of concordance was estimated to be 0.080. The correlation between Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status and mean score of FACIT-F was studied, Pearson correlation coefficient was estimated to be 0.271 (P = 0.009). CONCLUSIONS: FACIT-F is a brief, simple, easy to administer and patient friendly tool to measure the fatigue in last 7 days. CRF should be given adequate attention from the beginning of the treatment to improve the quality of life of cancer patients.
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spelling pubmed-43827772015-04-02 Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated Kapoor, Akhil Singhal, Mukesh Kumar Bagri, Puneet Kumar Narayan, Satya Beniwal, Surender Kumar, Harvindra Singh South Asian J Cancer BEYOND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: Original Article BACKGROUND: Cancer related fatigue (CRF) is a problem that is highly under reported, under recognized and thus, under treated. About 80% of patients receiving chemotherapy/radiotherapy experience CRF, making it the most common side effect of cancer treatment. Functional assessment of chronic illness therapy fatigue (FACIT-F) version-4 is a 13 item questionnaire that has been used to measure the level of fatigue of cancer patients during their daily activities over the past 7 days. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 92 patients of age 18 years and above attending the oncology Out Patient Department (OPD) of a regional cancer center were recruited in this study and were given FACIT-F questionnaire. The relevant sociodemographic parameters were obtained from the medical records of the patients. The internal consistency of the 13 items was measured using the Cronbach's alpha. RESULTS: The Cronbach alpha coefficient for FACIT-F scale in our study was found to be 0.74. Kendall's coefficient of concordance was estimated to be 0.080. The correlation between Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status and mean score of FACIT-F was studied, Pearson correlation coefficient was estimated to be 0.271 (P = 0.009). CONCLUSIONS: FACIT-F is a brief, simple, easy to administer and patient friendly tool to measure the fatigue in last 7 days. CRF should be given adequate attention from the beginning of the treatment to improve the quality of life of cancer patients. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4382777/ /pubmed/25839015 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.149942 Text en Copyright: © South Asian Journal of Cancer http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kapoor, Akhil
Singhal, Mukesh Kumar
Bagri, Puneet Kumar
Narayan, Satya
Beniwal, Surender
Kumar, Harvindra Singh
Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated
title Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated
title_full Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated
title_fullStr Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated
title_full_unstemmed Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated
title_short Cancer related fatigue: A ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated
title_sort cancer related fatigue: a ubiquitous problem yet so under reported, under recognized and under treated
topic BEYOND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25839015
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2278-330X.149942
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