Neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home patients: Factor structure invariance of the Dutch nursing home version of the neuropsychiatric inventory in different stages of dementia

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-176

  Zuidema, Sytse U ^a,b   De Jonghe, Jos F M ^c   Verhey, Frans R J ^d   Koopmans, Raymond T C M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Medical Centre Alkmaar ^*

^c Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Neuropsychiatric Inventory; Neuropsychiatric symptoms; Nursing home medicine

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; HYPNOTIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; AGITATION; APATHY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; EUPHORIA; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; RESTLESSNESS; SAMPLE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS;

EID: 34548150949     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000105603     Document Type: Article

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