background & aim : increasing students’ academic stress especially during taking final exams may result in sleep  disorders, fatigue, poor academic performance and low functional efficiency. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between sleep quality with fatigue severity and academic performance of nursing students. methods & materials : in a cross-sectional study, the sleep ...

We validated the Taiwanese version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI-T) in a sample of 439 Taiwanese patients with multiple cancer diagnoses. Internal consistency was indicated by Cronbach alphas of 0.96 for fatigue-related severity and 0.95 for interference. Test-retest reliability was 0.89 for fatigue severity and 0.91 for interference. Factor analysis revealed a one-factor structure. Conve...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is one of the most common presenting symptoms in primary care in Korea. In this study, we aimed to determine the effect of exercise intervention on the severity of fatigue of unknown medical cause during a period of follow-up. METHODS We used the data collected from an outpatient fatigue clinic in Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. The study was conducted from Marc...

abstract background: fatigue is the most common and highly disabling symptom of multiple sclerosis (ms) that has negative effects on employment, the process of socialization, compliance with the disease, and other factors effective on activities of daily living. the usage of complementary and alternative medicine methods in ms patients is higher than in the general population. however, there is...

Aims: One of the side effects of chemotherapy is fatigue. This study was carried out with the aim of determining the effect of intervention based on 5A self-management model on the fatigue severity of patients with cancer under chemotherapy. Materials and Methods: In this randomized clinical trial conducted in 2016, 48 patients with cancer under chemotherapy, who were referred to Chemotherapy ...

PURPOSE Fatigue is commonly experienced in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and is associated with poor outcomes. Currently, little research has examined the psychosocial correlates of fatigue severity and its impact on renal disease patients. We predicted that psychological factors (distress, cognitions and behaviours) would be associated with fatigue severity and impairment in ESKD patients ev...

Fatigue is often experienced after liver transplantation. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the severity of fatigue in liver transplant recipients. In addition, the nature of fatigue and factors that may be associated with severity of fatigue after liver transplantation were explored. Ninety-six patients up to 15 years after liver transplantation were included. Severity of fat...