Development and Validation of the Norfolk Quality of Life Fatigue Tool (QOL-F): A New Measure of Perception of Fatigue.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To design a questionnaire to evaluate and distinguish between cognitive and physical aspects of fatigue in different age groups of "nondiseased" people and guide appropriate prevention and interventions for the impact of frailty occurring in normative aging.

Study design and participants

The Norfolk QOL-Fatigue (QOL-F) with items of cognitive and physical fatigue, anxiety, and depression from validated questionnaires including items from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measure Information System (PROMIS) databank was developed. The preliminary QOL-F was administered to 409 healthy multiethnic local participants (30-80 years old) in 5 age groups.

Methods

The authors distilled the item pool using exploratory (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). EFA ide

SUBMITTER: Vinik EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295653 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature