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Assessing disruptive behavior in older adults
— the Disruptive Behavior Scale | | Author(s) | C Beck, K Heithoff, B Baldwin, B Cuffel |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 1, no 1, February 1997 |
| Pages | pp 71-79 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Behaviour disorders ; Testing ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study developed and tested an instrument to assess the severity of disruptive behaviour in geropsychiatric patients. A qualitative analysis of existing instruments and literature was used to develop the 45 items of the Disruptive Behaviour Scale (DBS). Weighting of scores improved the ability to predict perceived patient disruptiveness over other schemes to score disruptive behaviour. The DBS provides a measure of patient disruptiveness that takes into account the frequency and impact of individual behaviours. Some items of the DBS were found to be more reliable than others. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970221014 A |
| Classmark | EP: 3T: 4C: 7T |
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