High Validity and Reliability of the PedsQL™ Multidimensional Fatigue Scale for Brazilian Children With Cancer

Nascimento, Lucila Castanheira; Nunes, Michelle Darezzo Rodrigues; Rocha, Ester Leonardo; Bomfim, Emiliana de Omena; Flória‐Santos, Milena; Santos, Cláudia Benedita dos; Santos, Danielle; Lima, Regina Aparecida Garcia de

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“…Parent-child concordance was moderate to good amongst survivors, while we observed a low interrater reliability between parent and child reports for the healthy controls. Poor parent-child concordance for controls has also been reported in previous studies utilizing the PedsQL™ Multidimensional Fatigue Scale [38,39]. Survivors of BT having the highest concordance of all three groups, followed by survivors of ALL, could be caused by the severity of the disabilities associated with these two diagnoses.…”

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Cognitive fatigue in relation to depressive symptoms after treatment for childhood cancer

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Background: Cognitive fatigue after childhood cancer is frequently overlooked despite guidelines recommending follow-up, and might be mistaken for depression due to overlapping symptoms. Our objectives were: 1) to examine ratings of fatigue in survivors of paediatric brain tumours (BT) and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) compared to healthy controls, 2) to examine the relationship between symptoms of depression and cognitive fatigue, and 3) to evaluate parent-child concordance in ratings of cognitive fatigue. Methods: Survivors of BT (n = 30), survivors of ALL (n = 30), and healthy controls (n = 60) aged 8-18 years completed the Pediatric Quality of Life Multidimensional Fatigue Scale and the Beck Youth Inventories. Associations between cognitive fatigue, diagnosis and depression were assessed with general linear modelling. Group differences were analysed using the Kruskal-Wallis test. Parent-child concordance was investigated with internal consistency reliability. Results: Cognitive fatigue was prevalent in 70% of survivors of BT survivors and in 30% of survivors of ALL. Diagnosis was the main predictor of cognitive fatigue (p < .001, η p 2 = 0.178), followed by depression (p = .010, η p 2 = 0.080). Survivors of BT reported significantly more fatigue than healthy controls on all fatigue subscales. While they also expressed more symptoms of depression, we found no evidence for an interaction effect. Parent-child concordance was moderate to good among survivors, but poor for controls. Conclusions: Survivors of BT and ALL suffer from cognitive fatigue, with survivors of BT expressing more problems. Cognitive fatigue and depression should be assessed in survivors of childhood cancer using both self-rated and proxy-rated measures, and appropriate interventions offered.

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“…In a recent systematic review of existing fatigue instruments, the authors concluded that the PedsQL™ Multidimensional Fatigue Scale was the only instrument among those studied with strong evidence of reliability [37]. Reliability and validity have been found to be stable across languages, age and gender [32,38,39].…”

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Cognitive fatigue in relation to depressive symptoms after treatment for childhood cancer

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“…Reliability ranged from 0.87 to 0.94,) except for sleep/rest fatigue (alpha=0.67). Cronbach alpha score was 0.90 for the total PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale, which was a little better than in recent studies in children (Varni et al, 2002a;Nascimento et al, 2015).…”

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“…The PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale was developed originally in English (Varni et al, 2002a). It has been translated to many languages such as Portuguese (Brazil) (Nascimento et al, 2015), Japanese (Kobayashi et al, 2011), and Dutch (Gordijn, Cremers, Kaspers, & Gemke, 2011). To the authors' The work to test the psychometric properties of this instrument was undertaken as part of a study to establish the links between self-esteem, fatigue and health-related quality of life in children with a diagnosis of cancer (The Authors 2016).…”

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The Psychometric Properties of an Arabic version of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale Tested for Children with Cancer

Al-Gamal

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2017

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing

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Fatigue is considered to be one of the most reported symptoms experienced by children with cancer. A major aim of this study was to develop an Arabic version of the Pediatric Quality of Life (PedsQL) Multidimensional Fatigue Scale (child report) and to test its psychometric proprieties for the assessment of fatigue in Arabic children with cancer. The PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale (Arabic version) and the PedsQL TM 4.0 Generic Core scale (existing Arabic version) were completed by 70 Jordanian children with cancer. Cronbach's alpha coefficients were found to be 0.90 for the total PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale (Arabic version), 0.94 for the general fatigue subscale, 0.67 for the sleep/rest fatigue subscale, and 0.87 for the cognitive fatigue subscale. The PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale scores correlated significantly with the PedsQL TM 4.0 Generic Core scale and demonstrated good construct validity. The results demonstrate excellent reliability and good validity of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale (Arabic version) for children with cancer. This is the first validated scale that assesses fatigue in Arabic children with cancer. The English scale has been used with several pediatric clinical populations, so this Arabic version may be equally useful beyond the field of cancer.

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“…The study was conducted on children aged 8-18 years as many as 216 respondents. The results of this study indicate that the level of reliability of Multidimensional Fatigue Scale instruments is from 0.70-0.90 for sleep/rest dimensions (children report shows α = 0,55) (Nascimento, et al, 2015).…”

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Hypnoparenting Effects Towards Fatigue as an Impact of Chemotherapy Among Pediatric Patients With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Anggraini¹

2018

Jurnal Keperawatan Indonesia

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The management of fatigue among pediatric patients with lymphoblastic leukemia does not become a priority apart from the cancer management itself. Hence, it is necessary to put an attention towards this issue by giving another complementary therapy for the patient called hypnoparenting. By implementing hypnoparenting will decrease the level of fatigue because of the chemotherapy process. Therefore the purpose of study was to investigate the effect of hypnoparenting towards fatigue prevalence as an impact of chemotherapy among pediatric patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. This research utilized quasi experiment before after study. The population of the study was pediatric patients (5-12 years old) who suffered by Acute Lymphoblastic leukemia under chemotherapy treatment at RSUD Ulin Banjarmasin. The study was started on Mei 2016 until June 2016 with the total participants were 30 pediatrics patients. The data analysis used dependent t-test with 95% CI and p value <0.05. According to the mean score of 30 patients in the range of age 5-12 years revealed ; before and after hypnoparenting implementation, The mean score was different 5.30 and p value 0.0003, 95% CI (2.681-7.919). There was a significant difference on fatigue level among the patients before and after hypnoparenting implementation.

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High Validity and Reliability of the PedsQL™ Multidimensional Fatigue Scale for Brazilian Children With Cancer

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Cognitive fatigue in relation to depressive symptoms after treatment for childhood cancer

Cognitive fatigue in relation to depressive symptoms after treatment for childhood cancer

The Psychometric Properties of an Arabic version of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale Tested for Children with Cancer

Hypnoparenting Effects Towards Fatigue as an Impact of Chemotherapy Among Pediatric Patients With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

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