title: The Present Behavioural Examination (PBE): the development of an interview to measure current behavioural abnormalities.
abstract: Behavioural problems are an important feature of dementia and other neuropsychiatric conditions. This paper describes the development and performance of an investigator-based interview (the PBE) for the detailed assessment of the behaviour of subjects over the preceding four weeks. The interview is designed to be administered to carers. A test-retest reliability study was carried out on the penultimate edition of this interview; and the inter-rater reliability of the final edition was measured. These studies show that the reliability of the PBE is comparable with that of other investigator-based interviews.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hope
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Fairburn
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012931:Social Environment