The MFSI-SF demonstrated moderate test-retest reliability in a small number of studies .
The MFSI-SF fatigue subscales were positively correlated with measures of distress , depressive , and anxious symptoms .
Purpose Fatigue is a subjective complaint that is believed to be multifactorial in its etiology and multidimensional in its expression .
Fatigue may be experienced by individuals in different dimensions as physical , mental , and emotional tiredness .
The purpose s of this study were to review and characterize the use of the 30-item Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory-Short Form ( MFSI-SF ) in published studies and to evaluate the available evidence for its psychometric properties .
Pre-treatment symptom cluster in breast cancer patients is associated with worse sleep, fatigue and depression during chemotherapy.
OBJECTIVE The concept of symptom clusters is relatively new in cancer patients ' symptom management . This study , which spanned four cycles of chemotherapy , combined three commonly seen pre-treatment symptoms in cancer patients ( i.e. sleep disturbances , fatigue and depression ) into one symptom cluster , to explore the associations between pre-treatment cluster categories and longitudinal profiles of these same symptoms during chemotherapy . METHODS This was a prospect i ve study . Seventy-six women with newly diagnosed stage I-III breast cancer , scheduled to receive at least four cycles of adjuvant or neoadjuvant anthracycline-based chemotherapy participated . Data were collected at seven time points before and during treatment . Sleep quality was measured with the  Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index  . Fatigue was measured with the Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory -- Short Form . Depressive symptoms were measured with the Center of Epidemiological Studies --Depression . Patients were divided into three groups based on the number of symptoms they experienced before the start of chemotherapy ( i.e. no symptoms , 1 - 2 symptoms or all three symptoms ) and a symptom cluster index ( SCI ) was computed . RESULTS All women reported worse sleep , more fatigue and more depressive symptoms during treatment compared with baseline ( all p's<0.01 ) ; however , those women with a higher SCI ( i.e. more symptoms pre-treatment ) continued to experience worse symptoms during treatment compared with those who began with fewer symptoms ( all p's<0.01 ) . CONCLUSIONS A higher clinical ly relevant-based pre-treatment symptom cluster was associated with more sleep disturbances , greater fatigue and more depressive symptoms during chemotherapy . Specific interventions for these pre-treatment symptoms may improve the frequency and severity of these same symptoms during chemotherapy , when they are most severe and most disruptive to quality of life
The MFSI-SF demonstrated moderate test-retest reliability in a small number of studies .
The MFSI-SF fatigue subscales were positively correlated with measures of distress , depressive , and anxious symptoms .
Purpose Fatigue is a subjective complaint that is believed to be multifactorial in its etiology and multidimensional in its expression .
Fatigue may be experienced by individuals in different dimensions as physical , mental , and emotional tiredness .
The purpose s of this study were to review and characterize the use of the 30-item Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory-Short Form ( MFSI-SF ) in published studies and to evaluate the available evidence for its psychometric properties .