Caregiver-Administered Neuropsychiatric Inventory (CGA-NPI).
The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is used to assess neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia patients. To reduce clinicians' time taken to administer the NPI, the authors studied a caregiver-administered NPI (CGA-NPI), in which caregivers completed the written form of the NPI worksheet. After a brief presupervision session, the caregivers of 61 dementia patients completed the CGA-NPI by reading through the worksheet. This was followed by a postsupervision session to check if the caregivers had completed the form appropriately. The correlation between the prevalence rates of each neuropsychiatric symptom obtained by the CGA-NPI and those obtained by the NPI was fair to good (kappa = 0.57-0.90) in all domains. All frequency, severity, and caregivers' distress scores of the CGA-NPI correlated significantly with those of the NPI (r> 0.6, P<.001). Total CGA-NPI scores also correlated highly with total NPI scores (r= 0.86, P<.001). These results suggest that the CGA-NPI can substitute for the NPI, saving administration time.
Kang
Sue J
SJ
Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50 Ilwon-dong Kangnam-ku, Seoul 135-710, South Korea.
Choi
Seong H
SH
Lee
Byung Hwa
BH
Jeong
Yong
Y
Hahm
Dong Seok
DS
Han
Il Woo
IW
Cummings
Jeffrey L
JL
Na
Duk L
DL
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D015140:Dementia, Vascular / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008609:Mental Status Schedule / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015588:Observer Variation; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic