Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Εργαλείο Αξιολόγησης της Ήπιας Κόπωσης (Brief Fatigue Inventory - BFI)	Κλίμακα Κόπωσης Καρκίνου (CFS)
Πεδίο	Ογκολογική Νοσηλευτική	Ογκολογική Νοσηλευτική
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1999	2000
Δημιουργός	Tito Mendoza and Charles Cleeland	Takuo Okuyama
Τύπος	Patient self-report brief fatigue scale	Patient self-report three-dimensional fatigue scale
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Mendoza, T. R., Wang, X. S., Cleeland, C. S., et al. (1999). The rapid assessment of fatigue severity in cancer patients: use of the Brief Fatigue Inventory. Cancer, 85(5), 1186–1196.	Okuyama, T., Akechi, T., Kugaya, A., et al. (2000). Development and validation of a cancer fatigue scale: a brief, three-dimensional, disease-specific instrument. J Pain Symptom Manage, 19(1), 5–14.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	BFI	CFS, Okuyama Fatigue Scale
Συναφείς	5	5
Σύνοψη	The Brief Fatigue Inventory is a 9-item patient self-report instrument specifically designed for rapid, repeated assessment of cancer-related fatigue severity and its functional impact. Developed by Mendoza, Cleeland, and colleagues at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in 1999, the BFI is optimized for use in busy oncology clinics, allowing comprehensive fatigue profiling in 2–3 minutes without sacrificing clinical validity.	The Cancer Fatigue Scale is a 15-item disease-specific self-report instrument that comprehensively assesses three dimensions of cancer-related fatigue: physical, cognitive, and emotional. Developed by Takuo Okuyama and colleagues at the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research and published in 2000, the CFS provides a brief yet multidimensional fatigue profile suitable for both clinical practice and research, with particular strength in non-English-speaking populations where it has been extensively validated.