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

BMC Psychology

Table 4 Internal consistency reliability for the PedsQL™ Multidimensional Fatigue Scale

	BT	ALL	CTR	Total
Child self-reported	α	α	α	α
General fatigue	0.853	0.483	0.721	0.786
Sleep/rest fatigue	0.792	0.580	0.573	0.666
Cognitive fatigue	0.926	0.919	0.748	0.910
Total fatigue	0.911	0.851	0.850	0.896
Parent-proxy-reported	α	α	α	α
General fatigue	0.799	0.891	0.846	0.892
Sleep/rest fatigue	0.701	0.805	0.683	0.792
Cognitive fatigue	0.933	0.928	0.877	0.951
Total fatigue	0.920	0.938	0.859	0.948
Parent-child concordance	ICC	ICC	ICC	ICC
General fatigue	0.489	0.493	0.416	0.564
Sleep/rest fatigue	0.591	0.614	0.282	0.522
Cognitive fatigue	0.776	0.589	0.162	0.656
Total fatigue	0.740	0.706	0.313	0.679

Abbreviations: BT brain tumour survivors; ALL acute lymphoblastic leukaemia survivors; CTR Controls; α Cronbach’s coefficient alpha; ICC Intraclass Correlation Coefficient

ISSN: 2050-7283