Manchester and Oxford universities scale for the psychopathological assessment of dementia (MOUSEPAD)
N.H.P. Allen
Bok Engelsk 1996
| Utgitt | 1996
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| Omfang | Side 293- 307
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| Opplysninger | Background. There is increasing awareness of the importance ofpsychopathological and behavioural changes in dementia and a need foran instrument to measure these features which achieves an appropriatecompromise between brevity and breadth. We describe a newly developed59-item instrument: the MOUSEPAD.Method. Reliability, sensitivity and validity were examined with 30carers, each of whom was interviewed four times over six weeks.Results. For different symptom groups kappa ranged from 0.43 to 0.93for test-retest reliability, from 0.56 to 1.0 for inter-raterreliability, and from 0.43 to 0.67 for the validation study.Conclusions. The scale may be useful as an outcome measure in drugtrials, for correlating psychopathological and behavioural changeswith post-mortem findings, and in epidemiological surveys.
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