Journal article
Prediction of multidimensional fatigue after childhood brain injury
AJ Crichton, F Babl, E Oakley, M Greenham, S Hearps, C Delzoppo, J Hutchison, M Beauchamp, VA Anderson
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Published : 2017
Abstract
Objectives: To determine (1) the presence of fatigue symptoms and predictors of fatigue after childhood brain injury and examine (2) the feasibility, reliability, and validity of a multidimensional fatigue measure (PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale [MFS]) obtained from parent and child perspectives. Setting: Emergency and intensive care units of a hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Participants: Thirty-five families (34 parent-proxies and 32 children) aged 8 to 18 years (mean child age = 13.29 years) with traumatic brain injury (TBI) of all severities (27 mild, 5 moderate, and 3 severe) admitted to the Royal Children's Hospital. Design: Longitudinal prospective study. Fatigue data collect..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work is supported by a jointly awarded grant from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, Toronto, Canada, and the Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative, Melbourne, Australia; a Moving Ahead Seed Grant; a National Health and Medical Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (Alison Crichton, awarded 2014), Canberra, Australia; a Neurosciences Victoria Brain and Mind Scholarship, Melbourne, Australia (Alison Crichton, awarded 2012); the Victorian Government's Infrastructure Support Program, Melbourne, Australia, and in part funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence Grant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Canberra, Australia. Franz Babl was in part funded by a Royal Children's Hospital Foundation grant.