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Caregiver and clinician assessment of behavioral disturbances: the California Dementia Behavior Questionnaire
Author(s)	Jeff Victoroff, Kristy Nielson, Dan Mungas
Journal title	International Psychogeriatrics, vol 9, no 2, June 1997
Pages	pp 155-174
Keywords	Dementia ; Behaviour disorders ; Evaluation ; Family care ; Doctors ; United States of America.
Annotation	As part of a multicentre project to study non-cognitive behavioural disturbances in dementia, a comprehensive caregiver-rated questionnaire for these behaviours was developed, the California Dementia Behavior Questionnaire. The study determined the reliability of caregiver ratings and compared caregiver ratings with clinician ratings using standard instruments. Caregivers showed good test/re-test reliability for ratings of all types of patient behavioural disturbance. Caregiver inter-rater reliability was highest for depression and lowest for psychosis. The correlation between caregiver reports and professional assessments was highest for agitation, intermediate for psychosis, and lowest for depression. The match between caregiver and clinician assessments of patient behaviours appeared to vary significantly by the type of behaviour assessed. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-980930404 A
Classmark	EA: EP: 4C: P6:SJ: QT2: 7T
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