Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 68, Issue 1 , Pages 89-93 , January 2010

Construct validity of the Chinese version of the Chalder Fatigue Scale in a Chinese community sample

  • Wing S. Wong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
    • ,
  • Richard Fielding

      Affiliations

    • Health Behavioral Research Group, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine & Unit for Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Community Medicine & Unit for Behavioral Sciences, 5/F William M. W. Mong Block, The University of Hong Kong, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. Tel.: +852 28199288; fax: +852 28559528.

Received 3 December 2008 ,Revised 27 March 2009 ,Accepted 19 May 2009.

References 

  1. Kroenke K, Arrington ME, Mangelsdorff AD. The prevalence of symptoms in medical outpatients and the adequacy of therapy. Arch Intern Med. 1990;150:1685–1689
  2. Kroenke K, Price RK. Symptoms in the community. Prevalence, classification, and psychiatric comorbidity. Arch Intern Med. 1993;153:2474–2480
  3. Jason LA, Richman JA, Rademaker AW, Jordan KM, Plioplys AV, Taylor RR, et al. A community-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome. Arch Intern Med. 1999;159:2129–2137
  4. Reyes M, Nisenbaum R, Hoaglin DC, Unger ER, Emmons C, Randall B, et al. Prevalence and incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome in Wichita, Kansas. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:1530–1536
  5. Taylor RR, Jason LA, Curie CJ. Prognosis of chronic fatigue in a community-based sample. Psychosom Med. 2002;64:319–327
  6. Jason LA, Taylor RR, Kennedy CL. Chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and multiple chemical sensitivities in a community-based sample of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome-like symptoms. Psychosom Med. 2000;62:655–663
  7. Roberts ADL, Wessely S, Chalder T, Papadopoulos A, Cleare AJ. Salivary cortisol response to awakening in chronic fatigue syndrome. Br J Psychiatry. 2004;184:136–141
  8. Cho HJ, Costa E, Menezes PR, Chalder T, Bhugra D, Wessely S. Cross-cultural validation of the Chalder fatigue questionnaire in Brazilian primary care. J Psychosom Res. 2007;62:301–304
  9. Chalder T, Berelowitz G, Pawlikowska T, Watts L, Wessely S, Wright D, et al. Development of a fatigue scale. J Psychosom Res. 1993;37:147–153
  10. Morriss RK, Wearden AJ, Mullis R. Exploring the validity of the Chalder Fatigue Scale in chronic fatigue syndrome. J Psychosom Res. 1998;45:411–417
  11. In:  Kandel ER,  Schwartz JH,  Jessell TM editor. Principles of neural science. 4th ed.. Columbia: McGraw-Hill; 2000;p. 79–84
  12. Kish L. Survey sampling. New York: Wiley; 1965;
  13. Martin A, Chalder T, Rief W, Braehler E. The relationship between chronic fatigue and somatization syndrome: a general population survey. J Psychosom Res. 2007;63:147–156
  14. Rakib A, White PD, Pinching AJ, Hedge B, Newbery N, Fakhoury WK, et al. Subjective quality of life in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Qual Life Res. 2005;14:11–19
  15. Loge JH, Kaasa S, Hjermstad MJ, Kvien TK. Translation and performance of the Norwegian sf-36 health survey in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. I. Data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability, and construct validity. J Clin Epidemiol. 1998;51:1069–1076
  16. Ware JJ, Kosinski M, Keller SD. A 12-item short-form health survey: construction of scales and preliminary tests of reliability and validity. Med Care. 1996;34:220–233
  17. Lam CL, Tse EY, Gandek B. Is the standard SF-12 health survey valid and equivalent for a Chinese population?. Qual Life Res. 2005;14:539–547
  18. Zigmond AS, Snaith RP. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1983;67:361–370
  19. Leung CM, Ho S, Kan CS, Hung CH, Chen CN. Evaluation of the Chinese version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. A cross-cultural perspective. Int J Psychosom. 1993;40:29–34
  20. Leung CM, Wing YK, Kwong PK, Lo A, Shum K. Validation of the Chinese-Cantonese version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and comparison with the Hamilton rating scale of depression. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1999;100:456–461
  21. Katon W, Lin E, Von Korff M, Russo J, Lipscomb P, Bush T. Somatization: a spectrum of severity. Am J Psychiatry. 1991;148:34–40
  22. Wessely S, Chalder T, Hirsch S, Wallace P, Wright D. Psychological symptoms, somatic symptoms, and psychiatric disorder in chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective study in the primary care setting. Am J Psychiatry. 1996;153:1050–1059
  23. Wessely S, Powell R. Fatigue syndromes: a comparison of chronic “postviral” fatigue with neuromuscular and affective disorders. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1989;52:940–948
  24. Wood GC, Bentall RP, Gopfert M, Edwards RH. A comparative psychiatric assessment of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and muscle disease. Psychol Med. 1991;21:619–628
  25. Bentler PM, Wu EJC. Eqs/windows: user's guide. Los Angeles: BMDP Statistical Software; 1993;
  26. Hu LT, Bentler PM. Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: conventional criteria versus new alternatives. Struct Equ Modeling. 1999;6:1–55
  27. Akaike H. Factor analysis and AIC. Psychometrika. 1987;52:317–332
  28. Browne MW, Cudeck R. Alternative ways of assessing model fit. In:  Bollen KA,  Long JS editor. Testing structural equation models. Newbury Park (Calif): Sage; 1993;p. 136–162
  29. Mardia K. Measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis with application. Biometrika. 1970;57:519–530
  30. Bozdogan H. Model selection and Akaike's information criteria (AIC): the general theory and its analytical extensions. Psychometrika. 1987;52:354–370

PII: S0022-3999(09)00187-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2009.05.008

Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Volume 68, Issue 1 , Pages 89-93 , January 2010

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution