Table 2.
Mean score and percentage of patients with responses in the clinical range on self-assessment questionnaires.
| n | M | Range | % in clinical range* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatigue Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), mean score | 96 | 6.0 ± 0.8 | 3.8–7.0 | 99.0 | |
| Mental Fatigue Scale (MFS), sum score | 96 | 18.1 ± 5.6 | 5.0–41.0 | 93.8 | |
| Depressive symptoms | |||||
| Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), score | 96 | 16.2 ± 8.8 | 1–45 | 34.4 | |
| Minimal (0–13) | 42 | 43.8 | |||
| Mild (14–19) | 21 | 21.9 | |||
| Clinical depression | Moderate (20–28) | 22 | 22.9 | ||
| Severe (29–63) | 11 | 11.5 | |||
| Anxiety symptoms | |||||
| Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), score | 96 | 8.9 ± 7.1 | 0–29 | 18.8 | |
| Minimal (0–7) | 50 | 52.1 | |||
| Mild (8–15) | 28 | 29.2 | |||
| Clinical anxiety | Moderate (16–25) | 15 | 15.6 | ||
| Severe (26–63) | 3 | 3.1 | |||
| Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) | |||||
| Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), t-score | |||||
| Physical functioning | 96 | 43.1 ± 10.8 | 6.0–58.5 | 26.0 | |
| Role-physical | 96 | 39.8 ± 10.0 | 22.9–62.2 | 50.0 | |
| Bodily pain | 96 | 45.1 ± 10.5 | 21.7–63.1 | 19.8 | |
| General health | 96 | 40.5 ± 5.8 | 25.1–54.1 | 25.0 | |
| Vitality | 96 | 35.9 ± 9.0 | 17.2–55.3 | 46.9 | |
| Social functioning | 96 | 36.3 ± 9.3 | 8.0–49.2 | 47.9 | |
| Role-emotional | 96 | 43.3 ± 13.7 | 14.2–59.0 | 33.3 | |
| Mental health | 96 | 43.0 ± 12.8 | 13.9–64.3 | 29.2 |
*Cut-off values for clinical relevance as follows: FSS ≥4; MFS ≥10.5; BDI-II ≥20; BAI ≥16; SF-36 t-score <37.