Instruments for measuring fatigue in patients with brain tumours: protocol for a COSMIN--based systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cancer-related fatigue occurs at high rates and can harm patients' quality of life and even reduce survival, especially in patients with brain tumours. Many measures have been developed to assess this condition, but there have been no systematic reviews evaluating the metrological properties of these tools, and it is difficult to determine the measures with optimal properties and the conditions under which they should be applied. Therefore, we need to collect existing evidence and choose the most reasonable instrument. Our aim is to identify all instruments used to measure fatigue in patients with brain tumours and identify gaps in them by assessing measurement properties and methodological quality.

Methods and analysis

This protocol follows the Preferred Report

SUBMITTER: Xiao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306461 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature