In:
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, SAGE Publications, Vol. 17, No. 1 ( 2004-03), p. 32-35
Abstract:
The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is used to assess neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia patients. To reduce clinicians’ time taken to administer the NPI, the authors studied a caregiver-administered NPI (CGA-NPI), in which caregivers completed the written form of the NPI worksheet. After a brief presupervision session, the caregivers of 61 dementia patients completed the CGA-NPI by reading through the worksheet. This was followed by a postsupervision session to check if the caregivers had completed the form appropriately. The correlation between the prevalence rates of each neuropsychiatric symptom obtained by the CGA-NPI and those obtained by the NPI was fair to good (. = 0.57-0.90) in all domains. All frequency, severity, and caregivers’ distress scores of the CGA-NPI correlated significantly with those of the NPI ( r 〉 0.6, P 〈 .001). Total CGA-NPI scores also correlated highly with total NPI scores ( r= 0.86, P 〈 .001). These results suggest that the CGA-NPI can substitute for the NPI, saving administration time.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0891-9887
,
1552-5708
DOI:
10.1177/089198873258818
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2004
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2094096-8
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