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| Measuring primary care patients' attitudes about dementia screening | | Author(s) | Malaz Bourstani, Anthony J Perkins, Patrick Monahan |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 23, no 8, August 2008 |
| Pages | pp 812-820 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Screening ; Attitude ; Patients ; General practice ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors developed the Perceptions Regarding Investigational Screening for Memory in Primary Care (PRISM-PC) questionnaire, which captures the attitudes of primary care patients about dementia screening. 315 patients aged 65+ attending urban and rural primary care clinics in Indianapolis and North Carolina were administered the questionnaire by face-to-face or telephone interview. The questionnaire consists of two separate scales: the patient's acceptance of dementia screening scale, and the patient's perceived harms and benefits of dementia screening scale. The face validity of the questionnaire was based on a systematic literature review and the opinions of 16 clinician investigators with experience of screening for dementia. Exploratory factor analyses for the acceptance scale revealed the presence of two dimensions: knowledge about dementia risk and testing for dementia. For the benefits and harms scale, exploratory factor analyses identified four dimensions: perceived benefits of screening, stigma of screening, suffering from screening, and impact of screening on patients' independence. The internal consistency of each of the sub-scales was good (Crohnbach's alpha ranged from 0.58 to 0.85). The PRISM-PC questionnaire captures primary care patients' acceptance, perceived harm and perceived benefits of dementia screening. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080819217 A |
| Classmark | EA: 3V: DP: LF: L5: 4C: 7T |
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