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| Examining the utility of the Saskatchewan Mood Inventory for individuals with memory loss | | Author(s) | Catherine Burton, Margaret Crossley |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 22, no 3, Fall 2003 |
| Pages | pp 297-310 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Screening ; Memory disorders ; Evaluation ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The Saskatchewan Mood Inventory (SMI) is a caregiver-focused assessment and research tool, designed to enhance understanding of the emotional experiences of people with dementia. The SMI is also designed to identify relationships between level of cognitive impairment and family members' ratings of pleasant and unpleasant emotional responses during daily activities. Family members were instructed to use the semi-structured written log to document prospectively the type and intensity of emotion expressed by the person with dementia, to describe the associated emotion-evoking events or activities, and to monitor and record their own emotional reactions. 27 family caregivers recruited from Alzheimer support groups used the log consistently during a 2-week monitoring period, documenting an average of three emotion-evoking events per day. Average emotion ratings were more positive for those with moderate levels of dementia than for those with severe cognitive impairment. Caregivers' ratings of their family members' and their own emotional status were positively correlated. The event-reporting procedures produced narrative descriptions of emotion-evoking activities that were subsequently coded for content. Inter-rater reliability estimates were high. Event-category summaries are reported in association with positive, negative and neutral emotional responses for those with moderate and severe levels of dementia. Level of impairment was related both to the relative frequency of positive and negative emotions and to the type of event category reported by caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051010206 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 3V: EH: 4C: 7S |
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