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Piper Fatigue Scale

The Piper Fatigue Scale is a 22-item multidimensional self-report instrument that evaluates cancer-related fatigue across four conceptually distinct domains: behavioral/severity, affective/meaning, sensory, and cognitive/mood. Developed by Barbara Piper and colleagues in 1989 and revised in 1998, the PFS is grounded in a theoretical model of fatigue mechanisms and is widely used in oncology research and clinical practice to assess treatment-related and disease-related fatigue.

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Piper Fatigue Scale (PFS)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / oncology-nursing
  • Piper, B. F., Dibble, S. L., Dodd, M. J., Weiss, M. C., Slater, G., & Paul, S. M. (1989). The revised Piper Fatigue Scale: psychometric evaluation in women with breast cancer. Oncol Nurs Forum, 16(6), 751–758. · URL
  • Piper, B. F., Lindsey, A. M., & Dodd, M. J. (1987). Fatigue mechanisms in cancer patients: developing nursing theory. Oncol Nurs Forum, 14(6), 17–23. · URL
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