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Caregiver and Clinician Assessment of Behavioral Disturbances: The California Dementia Behavior Questionnaire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Jeff Victoroff ,
Kristy Nielson  and
Dan Mungas
Jeff Victoroff
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA
Kristy Nielson
Affiliation:
Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Dan Mungas
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California, USA
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Abstract

As part of a multicenter project to study noncognitive behavioral disturbances in dementia, the authors developed a comprehensive caregiver-rated questionnaire for these behaviors. The authors determined the reliability of caregiver ratings and compared caregiver ratings with clinician ratings using standard instruments. Caregivers showed good test/retest reliability for ratings of all types of patient behavioral disturbance. Caregiver interrater reliability was highest for depression and lowest for psychosis. The correlation between caregiver reports and professional assessments was highest for agitation, intermediate for psychosis, and lowest for depression. The match between caregiver and clinician assessments of patient behaviors appears to vary significantly by the type of behavior assessed.

Type
Studies on Measurement
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 155 - 174
Copyright
© 1997 International Psychogeriatric Association

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