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Assessing neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with dementia: a systematic review of measures.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Measures to assess commonly experienced symptoms for people with dementia in long-term care settings: a systematic review.BMC medicine · 2016Pooled it
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- Affective Neuropsychiatric Symptom Metrics in the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Dataset.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Implementation Outcomes for Agitation Detection Technologies in People with Dementia: A Systematic Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Seeking the neural basis of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia: neuroimaging findings and controversies.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Review
- Family Caregivers' Management of Behavioral Expressions of Dementia.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
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- A retrospective study of the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in patients admitted to a Specialist Dementia Care Unit.Australasian journal on ageing · 2022Article
- Validation of PARADISE 24 and Development of PARADISE-EDEN 36 in Patients with Dementia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Among Nursing Home Residents With ADRD: Does Race Matter?The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2022Article
- Validation of a Brief Screen to Identify Persons With Dementia at Risk for Behavioral Problems.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundNeuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) occur in people with dementia throughout disease course and across etiologies. NPS are associated with significant morbidities and hastened disease processes. Nevertheless, people with dementia are not systematically assessed for NPS in clinical settings. We review existing NPS measures for clinical and/or research purposes, and identify measurement gaps.
methodsWe conducted a computerized search of peer-reviewed published studies of measures (January 1, 1980-December 1, 2013) using multiple search terms. Measures selected for review were in English, had adequate psychometric properties, and were developed for or used with people with dementia. Papers describing measures were evaluated by three coders along seven characteristics: behavioral domains, number of items, method of administration, response categories, targeted population, setting, and psychometric properties.
resultsOverall, 2,233 papers were identified through search terms, and 36 papers from manual searches of references. From 2,269 papers, 85 measures were identified of which 45 (52.9%) had adequate psychometric properties and were developed or used with dementia populations. Of these, 16 (35.6%) were general measures that included a wide range of behaviors; 29 (64.4%) targeted specific behaviors (e.g. agitation). Measures differed widely as to behaviors assessed and measurement properties.
conclusionsA robust set of diverse measures exists for assessing NPS in different settings. No measures identify risk factors for behaviors or enable an evaluation of the context in which behaviors occur. To improve clinical efforts, research is needed to evaluate concordance of behavioral ratings between formal and informal caregivers, and to develop and test measures that can identify known risks for behaviors and the circumstances under which behaviors occur.
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