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| Assessing quality of life in Taiwanese patients with Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | Jong-Ling Fuh, Shau-Jiun Wang |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 21, no 2, February 2006 |
| Pages | pp 103-107 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Informal care ; Quality of life ; Evaluation ; Taiwan. |
| Annotation | The authors recruited consecutive patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their caregivers from an outpatient clinic of a teaching hospital in Taiwan. The objective was to measure differences in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and caregiver assessments of patients' quality of life (QoL). Each patient and caregiver rated the patient's QoL using the Quality of Life Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD) questionnaire. Of the 94 patients enrolled, 81 with reliable caregivers were included. The internal consistency was good within both patient and caregiver reports. The agreement between patient and caregiver QoL-AD reports was moderate. Regression analyses indicated that caregiver distress was the most consistent predictor of QoL rating discrepancy between the patient and the caregiver; and patient depressive disorder was the most significant predictor of QoL. Similar to previous studies in different ethnic groups, the QoL perception differed between the Taiwanese patients with AD and their caregivers. Medical professionals should be cautious if they try to use a caregiver-reported QoL to replace the patient-reported QoL among AD patients of mild to moderate severity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060928201 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6: F:59: 4C: 7DP |
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