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Accuracy of staff assessments in research
— dementia and environmental characteristics | | Author(s) | R Colin Reid, Neena L Chappell |
| Journal title | Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 6 no 3, Fall 2000 |
| Pages | pp 237-248 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Diagnosis ; Residents [care homes] ; Personnel ; Evaluation ; Nursing homes ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Researchers frequently rely on reports from staff for information regarding institutionalised residents with dementia. This article examines the accuracy of Canadian staff reporting in two areas: diagnosis of residents with dementia; and a variety of environmental characteristics. Staff reports are compared with scores from the Multi-Focus Assessment Scale - Revised (MAS-R) for a diagnosis of dementia, and from the Therapeutic Environment Screening Scale (TESS). Analyses reveal low to moderate correlations for dementia assessment, with nurses tending to underestimate the severity of dementia. For environmental items, reasonable agreement between staff and TESS assessments for objective items os found, but almost no agreement for subjective items. Cognitive data should therefore be collected using established research methods, rather than relying on nurses' assessments, and that objective environmental data from staff could be used for research purposes, but that subjective evaluations would be of considerably less empirical value. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010131206 A |
| Classmark | EA: LK7: KX: QM: 4C: LHB: 7S |
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