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Assessment of Motor and Process Skills as a Measure of IADL Functioning in Pharmacologic Studies of People With Alzheimer's Disease: A Pilot Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Frances Oakley  and
Trey Sunderland
Frances Oakley
Affiliation:
Occupational Therapy Section, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Trey Sunderland
Affiliation:
Section on Geriatric Psychiatry, National Institutes of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Abstract

The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the usefulness of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) as an outcome measure of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in pharmacologic studies of people with Alzheimer's disease. The AMPS simultaneously measures motor and process skills and their effect on the ability of the person to perform familiar IADL tasks. We administered the AMPS to 11 Alzheimer inpatients in a 31/2-month, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study of fluoxetine and selegiline administered as single agents and in combination with physostigmine. Results indicated that there was a significant difference in IADL ability among study conditions for process skills, but not for motor skills, thereby suggesting that the AMPS is useful as a sensitive outcome measure of IADL ability in drug trials with this population.

Type
Study on Function
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 197 - 206
Copyright
© 1997 International Psychogeriatric Association

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