Complete model with all parental factors and fatigue (PedsQL MFS General Fatigue Scale) as dependent variables for the group of children 8–18 years of age with chronic disease
| Associated factors | Unstandardised β | Effect size | 95% CI |
| Confounders | |||
| Age of the child | −2.5 | −0.4 | −3.5 to −1.4 |
| Sex of the child (0=female) | 3.5 | 0.1 | −3.5 to 10.4 |
| Physical parental factors | |||
| Parental pain (VAS, range 0–10) | −0.6 | −0.1 | −2.5 to 1.4 |
| Parental fatigue (CIS-8, range 8–56) | 0.2 | 0.1 | −0.3 to 0.6 |
| Number of CDC CFS symptoms (0–8) | 0.5 | 0.0 | −2.0 to 3.0 |
| Psychosocial parental factors | |||
| Parental pain catastrophising (PCS-P, range 0–52) | −0.4 | −0.1 | −0.8 to 0.1 |
| Parental distress (DT-P, range 0–10) | −1.9 | −0.2 | −3.7 to −0.1 |
| Family empowerment | |||
| FES family subscale (1–5) | 9.6 | 0.2 | −0.2 to 19.5 |
| FES service system subscale (1–5) | 2.1 | 0.1 | −6.5 to 10.6 |
The PedsQL MFS is scored on a scale from 0 to 100, with a lower score indicating more severe fatigue. Thus, a negative correlation indicates a lower score, indicating more fatigue.
Significant results in bold.
CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome; CIS-8, Eight-Item Checklist Individual Strength; DT-P, Distress Thermometer for Parents; FES, Family Empowerment Scale; PCS-P, Pain Catastrophising Scale for Parents; PedsQL MFS, PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale; VAS, Visual Analogue Scale.