The Behavioural Assessment Scale: norms for factor-based subscales.
The Behavioural Assessment Scale (BAS) was developed to assess adaptive functioning in older persons with severe cognitive impairment. Previous research has demonstrated that BAS items can be rescored as 3 factor-based subscales entitled Daily Living Skills, Communication and Social Skills, and Problem Behavior, or as a global functioning aggregate. Normative information on these subscales is most helpful when based on a severely impaired sample because very little variation is present in an unimpaired population. In accordance with this goal, regression-predicted age- and mental-status-corrected percentile ranks are presented for these 4 subscales, and for the total score of the BAS.
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Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Iverson
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001519:Behavior; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011340:Problem Solving; D012016:Reference Values; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012919:Social Behavior