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Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales

BACKGROUND: Cognitive tests have been used in population surveys as first stage screens for dementia but are biased by education. However functional ability scales are less biased by education than the cognitive scale and thus can be used in screening for dementia. OBJECTIVE: To validate Activities...

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Autores principales: Umayal, S, Kulathunga, M, Somaratne, S, Srikanth, S, Kathriarachchi, S, De Silva, Ranil
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20974013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-268
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author Umayal, S
Kulathunga, M
Somaratne, S
Srikanth, S
Kathriarachchi, S
De Silva, Ranil
author_facet Umayal, S
Kulathunga, M
Somaratne, S
Srikanth, S
Kathriarachchi, S
De Silva, Ranil
author_sort Umayal, S
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description BACKGROUND: Cognitive tests have been used in population surveys as first stage screens for dementia but are biased by education. However functional ability scales are less biased by education than the cognitive scale and thus can be used in screening for dementia. OBJECTIVE: To validate Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scale appropriate for use in assessing the presence of dementia in an elderly population living in care homes in Sri Lanka. METHOD: Sinhalese version of the modified Bristol and Blessed scale was administered to subjects aged 55 years and above residing in 14 randomly selected elders' homes. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) was used to determine the cut-off scores of both the scales. RESULTS: Based on the ROC analysis, optimal cut off score of the modified Bristol scale was 20 with a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 74.2% and the area under the curve 0.933(95% CI: 0.871-0.995) while the optimal cut off score of the modified Blessed scale was 10.5 with a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 71% and the area under the curve 0.892 (95% CI: 0.816-0.967). CONCLUSION: The findings confirm that both the scales can be used in screening for dementia in the elderly living in care homes in Sri Lanka.
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spelling pubmed-29878682010-11-19 Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales Umayal, S Kulathunga, M Somaratne, S Srikanth, S Kathriarachchi, S De Silva, Ranil BMC Res Notes Correspondence BACKGROUND: Cognitive tests have been used in population surveys as first stage screens for dementia but are biased by education. However functional ability scales are less biased by education than the cognitive scale and thus can be used in screening for dementia. OBJECTIVE: To validate Activities of Daily Living (ADL) scale appropriate for use in assessing the presence of dementia in an elderly population living in care homes in Sri Lanka. METHOD: Sinhalese version of the modified Bristol and Blessed scale was administered to subjects aged 55 years and above residing in 14 randomly selected elders' homes. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) was used to determine the cut-off scores of both the scales. RESULTS: Based on the ROC analysis, optimal cut off score of the modified Bristol scale was 20 with a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 74.2% and the area under the curve 0.933(95% CI: 0.871-0.995) while the optimal cut off score of the modified Blessed scale was 10.5 with a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 71% and the area under the curve 0.892 (95% CI: 0.816-0.967). CONCLUSION: The findings confirm that both the scales can be used in screening for dementia in the elderly living in care homes in Sri Lanka. BioMed Central 2010-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2987868/ /pubmed/20974013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-268 Text en Copyright ©2010 De Silva et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Umayal, S
Kulathunga, M
Somaratne, S
Srikanth, S
Kathriarachchi, S
De Silva, Ranil
Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales
title Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales
title_full Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales
title_fullStr Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales
title_full_unstemmed Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales
title_short Validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales
title_sort validation of a functional screening instrument for dementia in an elderly sri lankan population: comparison of modified bristol and blessed activities of daily living scales
topic Correspondence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20974013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-3-268
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