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The MDS Challenging Behavior Profile for long-term care
Author(s)	D L Gerritsen, W P Achterberg, N Steverink
Journal title	Aging & Mental Health, vol 12, no 1, January 2008
Publisher	Taylor & Francis, January 2008
Pages	pp 116-123
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Behaviour disorders ; Evaluation ; Nursing homes ; Netherlands.
Annotation	The objective was to construct a reliable and valid challenging behaviour scale with items from the Minimum Data Set (MDS). Exploratory factor analysis of a sample of 656 Netherlands nursing home residents validated a 16-item Behaviour Profile containing four internally consistent and valid subscales measuring conflict behaviour, withdrawn behaviour, aggression, agitation and attention seeking behaviour. On a second dataset of 227 nursing home residents, internal consistency, inter-rater reliability and validity against the Behaviour Rating Scale for Psychogeriatric Inpatients (GIP) were established. Internal consistency of the subscale ranged between 0.54 and 0.78. The overall inter-rater reliability of the times was 0.53 (kappa); of the scale it was 0.75 (ICC). The MDS Challenging Behaviour Profile could potentially be an important contribution to existing clinical MDS scales, but additional studies on reliability, validity and usefulness are needed. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-080409215 A
Classmark	EP: 4C: LHB: 76H
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