Keywords
health surveillance
occupational fatigue
perceived fatigue
Spanish version
psychometric instrument
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Abstract
Evaluation of fatigue in work environment is crucial in order to draw up prevention and intervention programmes. The main objective of this study is to adapt the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory from English into Spanish. I analysed the internal structure and reliability and evidence was found of convergent validity. The scale was applied to a multi-occupational sample made up of 414 employees. Various external correlates and two contrast scales were also used. An exploratory as well as a confirmatory factor analysis were undertaken. The findings indicate that the Spanish version which we have presented is made up of nineteen items and three factors, namely General Fatigue, Physical Fatigue and Concentration/Motivation. The resulting reliability coefficients were adequate and, what’s more, evidence of validity was found for four external correlates and two fatigue scales. The present scale, adapted into Spanish displays ideal psychometric properties and may prove ideal for adequately identifying fatigue in work environments. The scale could be used in future research as a screening tool in combination with other instruments.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.