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How can we best assess the quality of life of people with dementia?
— the Bath Assessment of Subjective Quality of Life in Dementia (BASQID) | | Author(s) | Richard Trigg, Suzanne M Skevington, Roy W Jones |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 47, no 6, December 2007 |
| Pages | pp 789-797 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Drugs ; Quality of life ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The authors have developed the Bath Assessment of Subjective Quality of Life in Dementia (BASQID) as a measure of self-reported quality of life (QoL) which is based on the views of people with mild to moderate dementia. Two field tests of the measure (ns= 60 and 150) enrolled people with dementia from a memory clinic; the data was used to analyse the psychometric properties of the scale. Nested within this was a longitudinal investigation of 36 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients prescribed with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. The BASQID contains 14 items assessing a range of QoL issues. Results showed that the BASQID satisfies the criteria of a valid, reliable and acceptable assessment of subjective QoL. Scores were responsive to changes in QoL over 3 months. Low association between the BASQID and the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) indicates that cognitive function may influence QoL but is an indirect measure of the QoL experienced during dementia. The BASQID provides a means of better understanding the experiences, perceptions and beliefs of people with dementia. It does this through acknowledgement of the many influences on QoL over and above health status. Practitioners and researchers can use the BASQID alongside objective assessments of dementia to obtain a complete appraisal of a person's QoL. A link to the BASQID measure and manual is available at http://www.rice.org.uk/research_BASQID.php (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080326208 A |
| Classmark | EA: LLD: F:59: DA: 4C |
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