Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory.
MFI-20
- What it measures
- Fatigue across 5 dimensions: General Fatigue, Physical Fatigue, Reduced Activity, Reduced Motivation, Mental Fatigue
- Length and format
- 20 (4 per dimension). 5-point scale (yes that is true to no that is not true); subscale sums (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages (broadly validated internationally)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Smets, E. M. A., Garssen, B., Bonke, B., & De Haes, J. C. J. M. (1995). The Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI): psychometric qualities of an instrument to assess fatigue. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 39(3), 315-325.
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