The Neuropsychological Impairment Scale-Senior: a procedure for evaluating awareness disturbance in geriatric patients.
The Neuropsychological Impairment Scale-Senior (NIS-S) is a 30-item, orally administered questionnaire for geriatric patients about symptoms of cognitive impairment, affective disturbance, and defensiveness. Clinical and nonclinical norms are described along with validity and reliability information. A procedure is presented for comparing a patient's self-reported cognitive impairment with scores on performance testing, which gauges whether the patient is over- or under-reporting cognitive deficits.
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Annapolis, Maryland 21404, USA..
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001364:Awareness; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results