ABC Dementia Scale: A Quick Assessment Tool for Determining Alzheimer's Disease Severity

BACKGROUND: In this study, we examined the construct validity, concurrent validity concerning other standard scales, intrarater reliability, and changes in scores at 12 weeks of the previously developed ABC Dementia Scale (ABC-DS), a novel assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Mori, Takahiro, Kikuchi, Takashi, Umeda-Kameyama, Yumi, Wada-Isoe, Kenji, Kojima, Shinsuke, Kagimura, Tatsuo, Kudoh, Chiaki, Uchikado, Hirotake, Ueki, Akinori, Yamashita, Masato, Watabe, Toshiyuki, Nishimura, Chika, Tsuno, Norifumi, Ueda, Takashi, Akishita, Masahiro, Nakamura, Yu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2018
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Original Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5921188/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29706985
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000486956
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: In this study, we examined the construct validity, concurrent validity concerning other standard scales, intrarater reliability, and changes in scores at 12 weeks of the previously developed ABC Dementia Scale (ABC-DS), a novel assessment tool for Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS: Data were obtained from 312 patients diagnosed with either AD or mild cognitive impairment. The scores on the ABC-DS and standard scales were compared. RESULTS: The 13 items of the ABC-DS are grouped into three domains, and the domain-level scores were highly correlated with the corresponding conventional scales. Statistically significant changes in assessment scores after 12 weeks were observed for the total ABC-DS scores. CONCLUSION: Our results demonstrate the ABC-DS to have good validity and reliability, and its usefulness in busy clinical settings.

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