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The Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales (PAS)
— further data on psychometric properties and validity from a longitudinal study of the elderly | | Author(s) | A F Jorm, A J MacKinnon, H Christensen |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 1, January 1997 |
| Pages | pp 93-100 |
| Keywords | Cognitive impairment ; Dementia ; Depression ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Reported here are further data on the Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales (PAS), from a community survey of 709 older people, mean age 80 years (641 participating) in Canberra, Australia. Participants were also administered the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly, the National Adults Reading Test, and the Goldberg anxiety and depression scales. Diagnoses of depression and dementia were made in the Canberra Interview for the Elderly, from which the PAS is derived. Confirmatory factor analysis replicated the five-factor model which underpins the PAS. The PAS correlated with the other scales, having similar content, and showed correspondence with diagnosis of dementia and depression derived from the Canberra Interview. Longitudinal data supported the validity of the cognitive decline scale as a measure of change. These results support the original validity research on the PAS. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807211 A |
| Classmark | E4: EA: ENR: DA: 4C: 3J: 7YA |
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