Can the Cancer-related Fatigue Case-definition Criteria Be Applied to Chronic Medical Illness? A Comparison between Breast Cancer and Systemic Sclerosis
| Autor: | Linda, Kwakkenbos, Ollie, Minton, Patrick C, Stone, Susanna, Alexander, Murray, Baron, Marie, Hudson, Brett D, Thombs, J P, Mathieu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Psychometrics Immunology Breast Neoplasms Systemic scleroderma Severity of Illness Index Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment Breast cancer Rheumatology Quality of life Internal medicine medicine Immunology and Allergy Humans Cancer-related fatigue Fatigue Aged Scleroderma Systemic business.industry Cancer Cognition Middle Aged medicine.disease Differential item functioning Chronic Disease Physical therapy Quality of Life Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Rheumatology, 42, 7, pp. 1156-1162 The Journal of Rheumatology, 42, 1156-1162 |
| ISSN: | 0315-162X |
| Popis: | Objective.Fatigue is a crucial determinant of quality of life across rheumatic diseases, but the lack of agreed-upon standards for identifying clinically significant fatigue hinders research and clinical management. Case definition criteria for cancer-related fatigue were proposed for inclusion in the International Classification of Diseases. The objective was to evaluate whether the cancer-related fatigue case definition performed equivalently in women with breast cancer and systemic sclerosis (SSc) and could be used to identify patients with chronic illness-related fatigue.Methods.The cancer-related fatigue interview (case definition criteria met if ≥ 5 of 9 fatigue-related symptoms present with functional impairment) was completed by 291 women with SSc and 278 women successfully treated for breast cancer. Differential item functioning was assessed with the multiple indicator multiple cause model.Results.Items 3 (concentration) and 10 (short-term memory) were endorsed significantly less often by women with SSc compared with cancer, controlling for responses on other items. Omitting these 2 items from the case definition and requiring 4 out of the 7 remaining symptoms resulted in a similar overall prevalence of cancer-related fatigue in the cancer sample compared with the original criteria (37.4% vs 37.8%, respectively), with 97.5% of patients diagnosed identically with both definitions. Prevalence of chronic illness-related fatigue was 36.1% in SSc using 4 of 7 symptoms.Conclusion.The cancer-related fatigue criteria can be used equivalently to identify patients with chronic illness-related fatigue when 2 cognitive fatigue symptoms are omitted. Harmonized definitions and measurement of clinically significant fatigue will advance research and clinical management of fatigue in rheumatic diseases and other conditions. |
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