How to Identify Fatigue in Stroke Patients

Completed

• Conditions: Post Stroke Fatigue; Stroke

• Registration Number: NCT03034590
• Lead Sponsor: Herlev Hospital

Brief Summary

This study will translate an English case definition of poststroke fatigue and validate it against the Multidimensional Fatigue Questionnaire-20 and the Fatigue Severity Scale

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-08
• Primary Completion: 2015-03
• Study Completion: 2015-03
• Study First Submitted: 2016-10-12
• Status Verified: 2017-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-01-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-01-25
• Study First Posted: 2017-01-27
• Last Update Posted: 2017-01-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

Patients with a clinical stroke within the last 6 months as judged by a senior doctor or by the research assistant.

Patients that have given written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with aphasia, dementia or cognitive deficits so severe that they are unable to understand the purpose of the interview and the questionnaire. -

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Mean MFI-20 score for case positive patients	at inclusion in the trial	Describes validity of the case definition with regards to the MFI-20 questionnaire
Mean FSS-7 score for case positive patients	At inclusion in the trial	Describes validity of the case definition with regards to the FSS-7 questionnaire

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Optimal cut off score for case positiveness on MFI-20 and FSS	at inclusion in the trial (which is the time the values used are measured)	decide the optimal cut-off score on the two questionnaires to define case positiveness
inter rater variability of the case definition	within a week	Reinterview by a second interviewer

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Neurology, Herlev Hospital; 🇩🇰 Herlev, Denmark