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. 2022 Nov 16;31(6):e13754. doi: 10.1111/ecc.13754

TABLE 11.

Other relations reported between patient characteristics and outcome variables

Baseline characteristics/co‐morbidities
  • No difference in improvement of outcome by age (Henry et al., 2018)

  • Younger (<56) participants had larger effect on fatigue (Spahrkäs et al., 2020b; Willems, Mesters, et al., 2017)

  • Baseline levels of fatigue (Owen et al., 2017), demographic/clinical variables (Smith et al., 2019; Zernicke et al., 2016) and education and cancer status (Spahrkäs et al., 2020b) were no predictors of outcome on fatigue

Outcome variables
  • Fatigue was correlated with depression (Willems, Lechner, et al., 2017) and sitting time (Delrieu, Pialoux, et al., 2020)

  • Change in self‐efficacy score was associated with fatigue symptoms (Smith et al., 2019)

  • Clinically significant improvement is predicted by (Yun et al., 2012):

  • Being moderately to severely fatigued

  • Having sleep problems at baseline

  • Having comorbidities at baseline

  • More evident effect of intervention is seen with (Yun et al., 2012):

  • Lower Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) severity score

  • Higher sleep quality index I and II score

Adherence
  • Effect on fatigue was found when users used the module fatigue (Willems, Bolman, et al., 2017)

  • Number of cores completed was not associated with improvement in fatigue (Zachariae et al., 2018)

  • High/medium users had more reduction in fatigue than low/non users (Spahrkäs et al., 2020b)