Development and Validation of anIntegrated Fatigue Scale.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 950
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- The development of an Integrated Fatigue Scale for cancer patients. This newly developed integrated fatigue scale will be brief and easy to administer and patient friendly. It will measure fatigue based on the self-reported symptoms of cancer patients and will help in treating the cancer patients in time and can enhance their quality of life.
研究概览
简要总结
Cancer related Fatigue(CRF) is highly prevalent and distressing symptom in the majority of patients both during treatment for cancer and in the period following of the treatment.CRF interferes with the patient’s ability to perform daily activities and limits personal and social roles within the family and community resulting in significant decrement in overall quality of life.
Being a cancer patient, researcher understood how important it is to assess fatigue in cancer patients and carry out need based nursing interventions to alleviate symptoms. Most of the time fatigue is given less importance by nurses, doctors and other health care team members as they are not aware of CRF in cancer patients.
Hence the importance of having an instrument that can assess fatigue in routine nursing care is necessity to give due importance in the planning, implementng and evaluating the process of nursing care to cancer victims. therefore the researcher has taken initiative to undertake this study to develop an integrated fatigue scale.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18.00 Year(s) 至 65.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Cancer patients 1.Who are between 18 to 65 years 2.Who are able to read and write English, Kannada or Malayalam
- •Who are informed of their cancer diagnosis and undergoing/undergone treatment.
排除标准
- •Cancer patients 1.Who are suffering from severe mental or cognitive disorders
- •Who are referred to palliative care services for end of life care.
结局指标
主要结局
The development of an Integrated Fatigue Scale for cancer patients. This newly developed integrated fatigue scale will be brief and easy to administer and patient friendly. It will measure fatigue based on the self-reported symptoms of cancer patients and will help in treating the cancer patients in time and can enhance their quality of life.
时间窗: eight weeks time
次要结局
- Development and Validation of an Integrated Fatigue Scale to measure fatigue in cancer patients.(outcome will be assessed only once at baseline.)
- A newly developed and validated integrated fatigue scale will be available for public for research use.(From 2024 October on wards)