How to Identify Fatigue in Stroke Patients

Herlev Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post Stroke Fatigue; Stroke

Treatments: Other: questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03034590

ID 3-3013-583/1/

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will translate an English case definition of poststroke fatigue and validate it against the Multidimensional Fatigue Questionnaire-20 and the Fatigue Severity Scale

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with a clinical stroke within the last 6 months as judged by a senior doctor or by the research assistant.

Patients that have given written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Patients with aphasia, dementia or cognitive deficits so severe that they are unable to understand the purpose of the interview and the questionnaire. -