Psychometric properties of the Flemish translation of the NEECHAM Confusion Scale

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Milisen, Koen ^a,e   Foreman, Marquis D ^b   Hendrickx, Annik ^c   Godderis, Jan ^a   Abraham, Ivo L ^d,g   Broos, Paul L O ^e   De Geest, Sabina ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Covance Clinical and Periapproval Services SA ^*  (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^g Matrix45 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIRIUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS; VARIANCE; BELGIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFUSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PUBLICATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; CONFUSION; DATA COLLECTION; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 26844467310     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-5-16     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. American Psychiatric Association (APA): Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 4th edition. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Association; 2000.
2. Gustafson Y, Brännström B, Norberg A, Bucht G, Winblad B: Underdiagnosis and poor documentation of acute confusional states in elderly fracture patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 1991, 39:760-765.
3. Inouye SK: Delirium in hospitalized elderly patients: Recognition, evaluation, and management. Conn Med 1993, 57:309-315.
4. Inouye SK: The dilemma of delirium: Clinical and research controversies regarding diagnosis and evaluation of delirium in hospitalized elderly medical patients. Am J Med 1994, 97:278-288.
5. Lipowski ZJ: Delirium in the elderly patient. N Engl J Med 1989, 320:578-582.
6. Martin FC: Diagnosis and management of acute confusional states. Practitioner 1987, 231:848-852.
7. Morency CR, Levkoff SE, Dick KL: Research considerations: delirium in hospitalized elders. J Gerontol Nurs 1994, 20:24-30.
8. Murray AM, Levkoff SE, Wetle TT, Beckett L, Cleary PD, Schor JD, Lipsitz LA, Rowe JW, Evans DA: Acute delirium and functional decline in the hospitalized elderly patient. J Gerontol 1993, 48:M181-186.
9. Pompei P, Foreman MD, Rudberg MA, Inouye SK, Braund V, Cassel CK: Delirium in hospitalized older persons: Outcomes and predictors. J Am Geriatr Soc 1994, 42:809-815.
10. Francis J, Kapoor WN: Prognosis after hospital discharge of older medical patients with delirium. J Am Geriatr Soc 1992, 40:601-606.
11. Inouye SK, Rushing JT, Foreman MD, Palmer RM, Pompei P: Does delirium contribute to poor hospital outcomes? A three-site epidemiologic study. J Gen Intern Med 1998, 13:234-42.
12. Inouye SK, Foreman MD, Mion LC, Katz KH, Cooney LM Jr: Nurses' recognition of delirium and its symptoms: comparison of nurse and researcher ratings. Arch Intern Med 2001, 161:2467-73.
13. Milisen K, Foreman MD, Godderis J, Abraham IL, Broos PLO: Delirium in the elderly: Nursing assessment and management. Nurs Clin North Am 1998, 33:417-439.
14. Rockwood K, Cosway S, Stolee P, Kydd D, Carver D, Jarrett P, O'Brien B: Increasing the recognition of delirium in elderly patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 1994, 42:252-256.
15. Milisen K, Foreman MD, Wouters B, Driesen R, Godderis J, Abraham IL, Broos PLO: Documentation of delirium in the nursing and medical records of elderly hip fracture patients. J Gerontol Nurs 2002, 28:23-29.
16. Palmateer L, McCartney J: Do nurses know when patients have cognitive dificits? J Gerontol Nurs 1985, 11:6-16.
17. Foreman MD, Vermeersch PEH: Measuring cognitive status. In Instruments for clinical health care research 3rd edition. Edited by: Frank-Stromborg M, Olsen Sudbury SJ. MA: Jones and Bartlett; 2004:100-127.
18. Schuurmans MJ, Deschamps PI, Markham SW, Shortridge-Baggett LM, Duursma SA: The measurement of delirium: review of scales. Res Theory Nurs Pract 2003, 17:207-224.
19. Smith MJ, Breitbart WS, Platt MM: A critique of instruments and methods to detect, diagnose and rate delirium. J Pain Symptom Manage 1995, 10:35-77.
20. Trzepacz P: A review of delirium assessment instruments. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 1994, 16:397-405.
21. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR: "Mini-Mental State": A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res 1975, 12:189-198.
22. Neelon VJ, Champagne MT, Carlson JR, Funk SG: The NEECHAM Confusion Scale: Construction, validation, and clinical testing. Nurs Res 1996, 45:324-330.
23. Tombaugh TN, McIntyre NJ: The Mini-Mental State Examination: a comprehensive review. J Am Geriatr Soc 1992, 40:922-935.
24. Williams MA: Delirium/acute confusional states: Evaluation devices in nursing. Int Psychogeriatr 1991, 3:301-308.
25. Neelon VJ, Champagne MT, McConnell E, Carlson J, Funk SG: Use of the NEECHAM Confusion Scale to assess acute confusional states of hospitalized older patients. In Key aspects of elder care: Managing falls, incontinence, and cognitive impairment Edited by: Funk SG, Tornquist EM, Champagne MT, Wiese RA. New York: Springer Publishing Company; 1992:278-289.
26. Champagne MT, Neelon VJ, McConnell ES, Funk SG: The NEECHAM Confusion Scale: Assessing acute confusion in the hospitalized and nursing home elderly. Gerontologist 1987, 27(October, special):4A.
27. Csokasy J: Assessment of acute confusion: Use of the NEECHAM Confusion Scale. Appl Nurs Res 1999, 12:51-55.
28. Johansson IS, Hamrin EK, Larsson G: Psychometric testing of the NEECHAM Confusion Scale among patients with hip fracture. Res Nurs Health 2002, 25:203-211.
29. Milisen K, Abraham IL, Foreman MD, De Geest S, Godderis J, Vandermeulen E, Fishler B, Delooz H, Spiessens B, Broos PLO: A nurse-led interdisciplinary intervention program for delirium in elderly hip-fracture patients. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001, 49:523-532.
30. Lekan-Rutledge D: Functional assessment. In Gerontological Nursing: Concepts and practice 2nd edition. Edited by: Matteson MA, McConnel ES, Linton AD. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 1997:90-94.
31. Matsushita T, Matsushima E, Maruyama M: Early detection of postoperative delirium and confusion in a surgical ward using the NEECHAM confusion scale. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2004, 26:158-163.
32. Inouye SK, van Dyck CH, Alessi CA, Balkin S, Siegal AP, Horwitz RI: Clarifying confusion: the confusion assessment method. Ann Intern Med 1990, 113:941-8.
33. American Psychiatric Association (APA): Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 3rd edition. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Association; 1987.
34. Foreman MD: Confusion in the hospitalized elderly: Incidence, onset, and associated factors. Res Nurs Health 1989, 12:21-29.
35. Strub RL, Black FW: The mental status examination in neurology Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company; 1977:18-9.
36. Cummings JL: Clinical Neuropsychiatry (Inc., 9) Orlando: Grune and Straton; 1985.
37. Scherr PA, Albert MS, Funkenstein HH, Cook NR, Hennekens CH, Branch LG, White LR, Taylor JO, Evans DA: Correlates of cognitive function in an elderly community population. Am J Epidemiol 1988, 128:1084-101.
38. Pompei P, Foreman MD, Cassel CK, Alessi C, Cox D: Detecting delirium among hospitalized older patients. Arch Intern Med 1995, 155:301-307.
39. Jolliffe IT: Principal Component Analysis New-York: Springer-Verlag; 1986.
40. Liang KY: Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models. Biometrika 1986, 73:13-22.
41. Eng J: ROC analysis: web-based calculator for ROC curves. [http://www.rad.jhmi.edu/roc].