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The investigators contacted consecutive adult patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) and mechanically ventilated for at least 72 hours to invite them to an interview at hospital. The investigators administered Mini Mental Status Examination, Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy scale for Fatigue (Facit- F) and Short form 36 questionnaires to the consenting patients.
Fatigue is one of the most commonly symptoms reported by patients. There are many causes of pathological fatigue including mental and physical, both neurological (central and peripheral) and non-neurological diseases. Among the last ones, cancer, infections and drugs are factors associated with fatigue, although the mechanism of how non-neurological diseases cause fatigue is not clear. Evidence exists to suggest that patients who have been critically ill continue to face a multitude of physical, psychological and social difficulties in the long term after discharge. As far as fatigue is concerned, greater than 50% of Intensive Care Unit survivors overall reported lowered energy levels and fatigue in the first year after discharge.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Intensive care survivors | Observational study |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Questionnaire | Other |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Functional Assessment Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F) | 12 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Short form 36 questionnaire | 12 months |
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Intensive care one-year survivors
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 23892338 | Background | Finsterer J, Mahjoub SZ. Fatigue in healthy and diseased individuals. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2014 Aug;31(5):562-75. doi: 10.1177/1049909113494748. Epub 2013 Jul 26. | |
| 9817120 | Background | Apolone G, Mosconi P. The Italian SF-36 Health Survey: translation, validation and norming. J Clin Epidemiol. 1998 Nov;51(11):1025-36. doi: 10.1016/s0895-4356(98)00094-8. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D005221 | Fatigue |
| ID | Term |
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| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| D011795 | Surveys and Questionnaires |
| ID | Term |
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| D003625 | Data Collection |
| D004812 | Epidemiologic Methods |
| D008919 | Investigative Techniques |
| D017531 | Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms |
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| 25778536 | Background | Egerton T, Riphagen II, Nygard AJ, Thingstad P, Helbostad JL. Systematic content evaluation and review of measurement properties of questionnaires for measuring self-reported fatigue among older people. Qual Life Res. 2015 Sep;24(9):2239-55. doi: 10.1007/s11136-015-0963-1. Epub 2015 Mar 17. |
| 27756403 | Derived | Spadaro S, Capuzzo M, Valpiani G, Bertacchini S, Ragazzi R, Dalla Corte F, Terranova S, Marangoni E, Volta CA. Fatigue in intensive care survivors one year after discharge. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2016 Oct 18;14(1):148. doi: 10.1186/s12955-016-0554-z. |
| D011787 | Quality of Health Care |
| D017530 | Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation |
| D011634 | Public Health |
| D004778 | Environment and Public Health |