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A New Tool for Assessing Fatigue in Individuals With Advanced Cancer

NCT00428675 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 228

Last updated 2022-05-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Fatigue is a common problem in advanced cancer and palliative care. The development of tools to measure fatigue, however, has been slowed by their inability to distinguish between fatigue and other related symptoms, such as tiredness. Our work suggests that these distinctions are important because they serve as markers for stressors associated with advancing disease. We have developed a tool that we believe will distinguish between these two states as well as exhaustion. In this study we will conduct some initial tests of this tool in preparation for its use as an outcome indicator in future studies.

Conditions

  • Neoplasms

Interventions

OTHER

ACI instrument

Following ethics approval, 17 experts in symptom management assisted with content validation during the pilot phase. In the main study, participants complete the FACT-F, the POMS-Vsf, and the ACI Instrument. A research assistant collected demographic information and assigned an ECOG score.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karin L Olson, Ph.D. · University of Alberta

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-10-31
Primary Completion
2007-10-31
Completion
2010-10-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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