Table 2.

Measures of Fatigue Used in Reviewed Studies on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Heart Failure (HF), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).

Measure of Fatigue	Disease	Study
Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Multidimensional Questionnaire	RA	Feldthusen et al. (2016)
Fatigue Questionnaire Scale	MS	Giovannoni et al. (2001)
Fatigue Scale	MS	Powell et al. (2015)
Fatigue Severity Scale	MS	Keselbrener et al. (2000) and Merkelbach et al. (2001)
Fatigue severity subscale of the checklist individual strength (CIS20r)	RA	Van Hoogmoed et al. (2010) and Repping-Wuts et al. (2007)
Italian version of the Short-Form (short form [SF]-36Ò) Vitality Scale	CKD	Bossola et al. (2015)
Kuratsume and Yumaguti New Fatigue Scale	CKD	Fuji et al. (2013)
Manchester COPD Fatigue Scale	COPD	Al-shair et al. (2011)
Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale-Heart Failure	HF	Lennie et al. (2013)
Modified Fatigue Impact Scale	MS	Gold et al. (2011) and Heesen et al. (2006)
Modified Performance Score for COPD	COPD	Schuetz et al. (2015)
Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory -20 + Dutch Exertion Fatigue Scale + standardized cardiopulmonary exercise testing	HF	Bunevicius et al. (2012)
Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire	RA	Lee et al. (2014)
Numerical Rating Scale	RA	Davis et al. (2008)
Profile of mood states	HF, MS	Fink et al. (2012; HF) and Goebel et al. (2005; MS)
SF-36 vitality scale	RA	Druce, Jones, McFarlane, & Basu (2015), Druce, Jones, McFarlane, and Basu (2015b), and Druce et al. (2016)
Visual Analog Scale	HF	Kumar et al. (2007)
Visual Analog Scale (0−100 mm)	RA	Druce, Jones, Macfarlane, Verstappen, et al. (2015) and Treharne et al. (2008)
Visual Analog Scale (unspecified)	RA	Bergman et al. (2009)