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| Patient versus informant perspectives of quality of life in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | Rebecca E Ready, Brian R Ott, Janet Grace |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 3, March 2004 |
| Pages | pp 256-265 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Quality of life ; Cognitive impairment ; Attitude ; Comparison ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Quality of life (QOL) ratings from informants and patients with mild Alzheimer's disease ((AD, n=26), mild cognitive impairment (MCI, n=20), and 23 older controls living in the community were compared. Measures about patients were the Dementia Quality of Life scale (DQoL), the Neuropsychiatric Inventory - Questionnaire (NPI-Q), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE). Informant depression was assessed with the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Ratings indicated that overall patient-informant agreement and controls did not differ significantly. Self-reported QOL did not differ significantly across the 3 groups. For caregiver reports, QOL in MCI again did not differ from controls, but was significantly greater than QOL in AD for 2 of 6 scales, and QOL in controls was greater than AD for 4 of 6 scales. Results suggest that future investigators should carefully consider gathering QOL information from both patients and informants, because they provide unique information regarding patient QOL, and to date, neither source of information has been established to be superior. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040505214 A |
| Classmark | EA: F:59: E4: DP: 48: 7T |
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