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Table 3 Pairwise correlations between the MFI subscales at t2 and t3

From: Fatigue in chronically critically ill patients following intensive care - reliability and validity of the multidimensional fatigue inventory (MFI-20)

	GF	PF	RA	MF	RM
	t2/t3	t2/t3	t2/t3	t2/t3	t2/t3
GF		.70²/.66²	.72^2/.76²	.58²/.58²	.57²/.62²
PF	.70^1/.67¹		.77²/.75²	.40²/.51²	.53²/.63²
RA	.70^1/.75¹	.77^1/.74¹		.55²/.55 ²	.60²/.62²
MF	.58^1/.57¹	.41^1/.50¹	.55¹/.51¹		.37²/.64²
RM	.58^1/.66¹	.53^1/.62¹	.60¹/.61¹	.43¹/.62¹

¹Partial correlations controlling for age and gender; ²Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients
GF General Fatigue, MF Mental Fatigue, PF Physical Fatigue; RA Reduced Activity, RM Reduced Motivation
All correlations are significant at p ≤ .001

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