A study of premorbid personality and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in nursing home residents

✍ Scribed by Lee-Fay Low; Henry Brodaty; Brian Draper

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 60 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0885-6230
• DOI: 10.1002/gps.697

✦ Synopsis

Objective:

To investigate the relationship between pre-morbid personality and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (bpsd).

Methods:

We studied 58 subjects with dementia and depression and/or psychosis residing in 11 sydney nursing homes cross-sectionally. informal caregivers completed ratings of residents' pre-morbid personality on the nep five-factor inventory (neo-ffi). information on bpsd was obtained using the behave-ad.

Results:

Higher neuroticism was predictive of delusions; higher agreeableness of hallucinations, aggressiveness, affective disturbance and overall behavioural disturbance; and higher openness of affective disorder.

Conclusion:

Our findings are inconsistent with previous research and clinical experience. prospective studies are needed to clarify the association between personality and behavioural disturbance in dementia.