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| Utilization of the draw a person test in the elderly | | Author(s) | Jean-Pierre Clément, Francis Marchan, Dominique Boyon |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 8, no 3, Fall 1996 |
| Pages | pp 349-363 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Depression ; Assessment procedures for mental patients. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to assess quantitative and qualitative changes that occurred in the drawing of a human figure during depression and dementia in the older people. A modified scale version of the Draw a Person Test (DAP) is presented. The first study (80 subjects) enabled the reduction of the number of items from 73 to 20 according to interrater reliability and diagnostic sensitivity to differentiate patients with dementia from control subjects. Study 2 (160 subjects: 51 with dementia, 70 with major depression, 39 older controls) used this 20-item DAP for cognitive assessment. Study 2 also featured an additional qualitative assessment (DAP 50) considering five components based on a projective examination of the drawings. Combination of the 20-item DAP and DAP 50 provides a complete approach to patients in accordance with the affective dimension. Results showed the ability of the 20-item DAP to discriminate dementia from depression with a better cutoff score of 7 and the usefulness of the the DAP 50 in the investigation of impaired components during depression and dementia in older people, with the goal of specifying key aspects of psychopathology in dementia. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980303268 A |
| Classmark | EA: ENR: DA:4C |
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