title: Manchester and Oxford Universities Scale for the Psychopathological Assessment of Dementia (MOUSEPAD).
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is increasing awareness of the importance of psychopathological and behavioural changes in dementia and a need for an instrument to measure these features which achieves an appropriate compromise between brevity and breadth. We describe a newly developed 59-item instrument: the MOUSEPAD.
  
  
  METHODS
  Reliability, sensitivity and validity were examined with 30 carers, each of whom was interviewed four times over six weeks.
  
  
  RESULTS
  For different symptom groups, kappa ranged from 0.43 to 0.93 for test-retest reliability, from 0.56 to 1.0 for inter-rater reliability, and from 0.43 to 0.67 for the validation study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The scale may be useful as an outcome measure in drug trials, for correlating psychopathological and behavioural changes with post-mortem findings, and in epidemiological surveys.
authors.affiliation: University of Manchester School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences.
authors.forename: N H
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hope
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results