Cognitive fatigue in relation to depressive symptoms after treatment for childhood cancer

BMC Psychology

Table 2 Child self-reported and parent proxy-reported fatigue in survivors and controls, together with the results of Mann–Whitney post hoc test with effect sizes

	Brain tumours			Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia			Controls		post hoc analysis	r
Child self-reported	M	SD	95% CI	M	SD	95% CI	M	SD	95% CI
General fatigue	62.63	24.76	53.38–71.85	76.11	13.29	70.13–82.09	79.44	13.63	75.92–82.97	BT vs. CTR	−.33
Sleep/rest fatigue	57.50	22.44	49.12–65.88	64.99	17.63	58.42–71.58	70.69	15.67	66.65–74.74	BT vs. CTR	−.29
Cognitive fatigue	46.39	29.29	35.45–57.33	64.58	25.11	55.20–73.96	76.04	14.75	72.23–79.85	BT vs. CTR BT vs. ALL	−.50 −.32
Total fatigue	55.50	20.93	47.69–63.32	68.56	16.47	62.41–74.72	75.39	12.62	72.13–78.65	BT vs. CTR	−.45
Parent-proxy-reported	M	SD	95% CI	M	SD	95% CI	M	SD	95% CI
General fatigue	55.56	21.17	47.65–63.46	66.25	23.27	57.56–74.94	85.49	14.03	81.86–89.11	BT vs. CTR ALL vs. CTR	−.62 −.39
Sleep/rest fatigue	63.19	19.17	56.03–70.35	74.30	19.98	66.80–81.81	82.86	14.55	79.10–86.62	BT vs. CTR BT vs. ALL	−.51 −.32
Cognitive fatigue	53.89	25.45	44.39–63.39	66.81	25.01	57.33–76.29	90.83	13.37	87.38–94.29	BT vs. CTR ALL vs. CTR	−.67 −.50
Total fatigue	57.55	18.87	50.50–64.59	69.12	20.56	61.39–76.85	86.39	11.06	83.34–89.44	BT vs. CTR ALL vs. CTR	−.67 −.42

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