How to Identify Fatigue in Stroke Patients

Herlev Hospital70 enrolled

Overview

This study will translate an English case definition of poststroke fatigue and validate it against the Multidimensional Fatigue Questionnaire-20 and the Fatigue Severity Scale

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Post Stroke Fatigue Stroke

Interventions

questionnaireOTHER

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: Patients with a clinical stroke within the last 6 months as judged by a senior doctor or by the research assistant. Patients that have given written informed consent \- Exclusion Criteria: Patients with aphasia, dementia or cognitive deficits so severe that they are unable to understand the purpose of the interview and the questionnaire. -

Locations (1)

Department of Neurology, Herlev Hospital

Herlev, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Mean MFI-20 score for case positive patients

Describes validity of the case definition with regards to the MFI-20 questionnaire

Time frame: at inclusion in the trial

Mean FSS-7 score for case positive patients

Describes validity of the case definition with regards to the FSS-7 questionnaire

Time frame: At inclusion in the trial

Secondary Outcomes

inter rater variability of the case definition

Reinterview by a second interviewer

Time frame: within a week

Optimal cut off score for case positiveness on MFI-20 and FSS

decide the optimal cut-off score on the two questionnaires to define case positiveness

Time frame: at inclusion in the trial (which is the time the values used are measured)

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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