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. 2022 Dec 21;17(12):e0279375. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279375

Table 5. Primary outcome measures for cancer-related fatigue assessment.

Outcome measures Number of interventions (n = 65)
Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness / Cancer Therapy–Fatigue (FACIT-F, FACT-F, FACT-ES, PROMIS-FACIT) 22
Piper fatigue Scale (PFS) 12
Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI) 7
Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) 7
Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), other linear analogue scales 5
Cancer Fatigue Scale (CFS) 3
Fatigue Symptom Inventory (FSI) 3
European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30 (EORTC-QLQ-C30) 2
Multidimensional Fatigue Symptom Inventory (MFSI) 2
Fatigue Scale (FS) 1
Fatigue Severity Inventory (FSS) 1
MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI) 1
Profile of Mood States (POMS) 1
Schwartz Cancer Fatigue Scale (SCFS) 1

Note: Some studies used more than one CRF-related scale