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Brief Fatigue Inventory

The Brief Fatigue Inventory is a 9-item self-report scale that measures the severity and impact of fatigue experienced by cancer patients over the previous 24 hours. It takes approximately 2-3 minutes to complete and scores fatigue severity as mild, moderate, or severe. The BFI has demonstrated good reliability and validity when compared to other validated fatigue scales. It is designed to be a concise yet informative measure of cancer-related fatigue that can be easily administered in clinical settings.

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Brief Fatigue Inventory

The Brief Fatigue Inventory is a 9-item self-report scale that measures the severity and impact of fatigue experienced by cancer patients over the previous 24 hours. It takes approximately 2-3 minutes to complete and scores fatigue severity as mild, moderate, or severe. The BFI has demonstrated good reliability and validity when compared to other validated fatigue scales. It is designed to be a concise yet informative measure of cancer-related fatigue that can be easily administered in clinical settings.

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Brief Fatigue Inventory

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Purpose The instrument is used to quickly psychometric properties. To find concurrent


assess the severity of fatigue experienced by can- validity, they compared BFI to two previously
cer patients, as well as its impact on their ability validated fatigue scales: the Fatigue Assessment
to function over the previous 24 h. It can be of Cancer Therapy (r = 0.88, p < .001) and
administered in a clinical setting as part of patient the Profile of Mood States (r = 0.84, p < .001).
screening processes, and may also be useful for Internal consistency was measured as Cronbach’s
clinical trials. As a short scale that can be rapidly a = .96.
administered and easily understood, the BFI is
designed to be well tolerated by patients suffer- Obtaining a Copy A published copy can
ing even the most severe degrees of fatigue. be found in an article by Mendoza and col-
leagues [1].
Population for Testing Patients experiencing
fatigue as a result of cancer and cancer treatment. Direct correspondence to:
Charles S. Cleeland, Ph.D.
Administration A pencil-and-paper scale, Pain Research Group
patients provide self-report ratings either orally Box 221, 1100 Holcombe Blvd.
through an interview, or in written form. With Houston, TX 77030, USA
only nine items, the instrument was designed to
be completed rapidly and relatively painlessly. Scoring Respondents rate each item on a 0–10
Approximately 2–3 min should be sufficient for numeric scale, with 0 meaning “no fatigue” and
administration. 10 meaning “fatigue as bad as you can imagine.”
Scores are categorized as Mild (1–3), Moderate
Reliability and Validity Following instrument (4–6), and Severe (7–10). Finally, a global
development, Mendoza and colleagues [1] fatigue score can be found by averaging the
conducted a study to evaluate the scale’s score obtained on each test item.

A. Shahid et al. (eds.), STOP, THAT and One Hundred Other Sleep Scales, 75
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9893-4_11, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
76 11 Brief Fatigue Inventory

Reprinted from Mendoza et al. [1]. Copyright © 1999, with permission from John Wiley and Sons.
Representative Studies Using Scale 77

Reference with cancer, patients with clinical depression, and com-


munity-dwelling adults. Journal of Pain and Symptom
Management, 25(4), 307–318.
1. Mendoza, T. R., Wang, X. S., Cleeland, C. S., Morrissey, M.,
Dimeo, F., Schwartz, S., Wesel, N., Voigt, A., & Thiel, E.
Johnson, B. A., Wendt, J. K., & Huber, S. L. (1999).
(2008). Effects of an endurance and resistance exer-
The rapid assessment of fatigue severity in cancer
cise program on persistent cancer-related fatigue after
patients. Cancer, 85(5), 1186–1196.
treatment. Annals of Oncology, 19(8), 1495–1499.

Representative Studies Using Scale


Anderson, K.O., Getto, C. J., Mendoza, C. R., Palmer, S. N.,
Wang, X. S., Reyes-Gibby, C. C., & Cleeland, C. S.
(2003). Fatigue and sleep disturbance in patients

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