Reported activities of daily living agreement between elderly subjects with and without dementia and their caregivers

Age and Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Østbye, Truls ^a   Tyas, Suzanne ^a   Mcdowell, Ian ^b   Koval, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Caregivers; Data collection methods; Dementia; Proxy respondent

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 0031004076     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/26.2.99     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Bowling A. Measuring Health. A Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991.
2. Fillenbaum GG. Multidimensional Functional Assessment of Older Adults. The Duke Older Americans Resources and Services Procedures. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence, Erlbaum, 1988.
3. Fulton JP, Katz S, Jack SS, Hendershot GE. Physical Functioning of the Aged (United States 1984). National Center for Health Statistics, Vital Health Statistics Series 10, No. 167. DHHS Publication No. (PHS) 89-1595, Hyattsville, MD, 1989.
4. Katz SC, Ford AB, Moskowitz RW, et al. Studies of illness in the aged. The index of ADL: a standardized measure of biological and psychosocial function. JAMA 1963; 185: 914-9.
5. Branch LG, Meyers AR. Assessing physical function in the elderly. Clin Geriatr Med 1987; 3: 29-51.
6. McDowell I, Newell C. Measuring Health: a Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; 303-4.
7. Kolonel LN, Hirohata T, Nomura AMY. Adequacy of survey data collected from substitute respondents. Am J Epidemiol 1977; 106: 476-84.
8. McLaughlin JK, Mandel JS, Mehl ES, Blot WJ. Comparison of next-of-kin with self-respondents regarding questions on cigarette, coffee, and alcohol consumption. Epidemiology 1990; 1: 408-12.
9. Hatch MC, Misra D, Kabat GC, Kartzmer S. Proxy respondents in reproductive research: a comparison of self and partner-reported data. Am J Epidemiol 1991; 133: 826-31.
10. Graham P, Jackson R. Primary versus proxy respondents: comparability of questionnaire data on alcohol consumption. Am J Epidemiol 1993; 138: 443-52.
11. Pickle LW, Brown LM, Blot WJ. Information available from respondents in case-control interview studies. Am J Epidemiol 1983; 118: 99-108.
12. Farrow D, Samet J. Comparability of information provided by elderly cancer patients and surrogates regarding health and functional status, social network, and life events. Epidemiology 1990; 1: 370-6.
13. Marshall J, Priore R, Haughey B, Rzepka T, Graham S. Spouse-subject interviews and the reliability of diet studies. Am J Epidemiol 1980; 112: 675-83.
14. Halabi S, Zurayk H, Awaida R, Darwish M, Saab B. Reliability and validity of self and proxy reporting of morbidity data: a case study from Beirut, Lebanon. Int J Epidemiol 1992; 21: 607-12.
15. Canadian Study of Health and Aging Working Group. Canadian Study of Health and Aging: study methods and prevalence of dementia. Can Med Assoc J 1994; 150: 899-913.
16. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging. Patterns of caring for people with dementia in Canada. Can J Aging 1994; 13: 470-87.
17. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3rd ed, revised (DSM-III-R). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1987; 107.
18. Bland J, Altman D. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986; i: 307-10.
19. Nelson LM, Longstreth WT, Koepsell TD, Checkoway H, van Belle G. Completeness and accuracy of interview data from proxy respondents: demographic, medical, and life-style factors. Epidemiology 1994; 5: 204-17.
20. Fleiss JL. Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1981; 213-36.
21. Armitage P, Berry G. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. Oxford: Black-well Science, 1994; 447.
22. Cohen J. Weighted kappa: nominal scale agreement with provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit. Psychol Bull 1968; 70: 213-20.
23. Cicchetti DV, Allison T. A new procedure for assessing reliability of scoring EEG sleep recordings. Am J EEG Technol 1971; 11: 101-9.
24. Magaziner J. The use of proxy respondents in health studies of the aged. In: Wallace RB, Woolson RF, eds. The Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; 120-9.
25. Zimmerman SI, Magaziner J. Methodological issues in measuring the functional status of cognitively impaired nursing home residents: the use of proxies and performance-based measures. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 1995; 8 (Suppl. 1): S281-90.
26. Magaziner J, Simonsick EM, Kashner TM, Hebel JR. Patient-proxy response comparability on measures of patient health and functional status. J Clin Epidemiol 1988; 41: 1065-74.