PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify differences in fatigue, other physical symptoms, and psychological symptoms and their relationship to quality of life (QOL) during chemotherapy and as long as one year after. DESIGN Longitudinal, descriptive design embedded in a pilot intervention study. SETTING Midwestern urban oncology clinics and patient homes. SAMPLE 25 Caucasian women, aged 40-65 years ...

BACKGROUND Several rehabilitation programmes aim at reducing the impact of fatigue in MS patients. Acute and chronic fatigue should require different management. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of individually tailored, multidisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation (MDR) on chronic fatigue. METHODS Forty-eight ambulatory MS patients with chronic fatigue were randomized to MDR or to MS-nurse ...

Under controlled laboratory conditions, neurobehavioral assays such as the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT) are sensitive to increasing levels of fatigue, and in general, tend to correlate with subjective ratings. However, laboratory studies specifically curtail physical activity, potentially limiting the applicability of such findings to field settings that involve physical work. In addition, ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between change fatigue, resilience, and job satisfaction among novice and seasoned hospital staff nurses. BACKGROUND Health care is typified by change. Frequent and vast changes in acute care hospitals can take a toll on nurses and cause change fatigue, which has been largely overlooked and under-researched. DESIGN AND METHOD A ...

We evaluated the frequency of fatigue in geriatric patients with and without Parkinson's disease (PD) and correlated it with depression and excessive daytime sleepiness. We evaluated 100 patients from Hospital São Paulo, 50 with PD from the Neurologic Outpatient Clinic and 50 with non-neurologic diseases or oncologic diseases from the Geriatric Outpatient Clinic (controls). All patients who sco...

Introduction: The Occupational Fatigue Exhaustion Recovery (OFER) scale is a reliable and validated tool to measure work-related fatigue. However, its psychometric properties were not found in any studies examining nurses in the Southeast Asian region, particularly in Brunei. Aim: To ensure validity and reliability of the OFER scale using a sample of emergency nurses in Brunei. Methods: OFER sc...