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Information reliability in dementia sufferers

✍ Scribed by C. G. Ballard; R. N. Chithiramohan; S. Handy; C. Bannister; R. Davis; N. B. Todd

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 267 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0885-6230
DOI: 10.1002/gps.930060508

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✦ Synopsis

The level of agreement between 58 patients suffering with dementia and their first-degree relatives was assessed for various types of information using questions directly comparable between the patient and informant section of the Camdex schedule. The overall agreement was 76% but this fell considerably when specifically comparing answers for which the relatives' responses were positive. This indicates that the main form of error displayed was an under-reporting of information by patients suffering with dementia. These findings pose important questions for clinical practice and research work. There is a need for further work to more precisely elicit the pattern of error and to investigate ways of improving information reliability.

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