Shigenobu Kazue, Hirono Nobutsugu, Tabushi Kaoru, Ikeda Manabu
Department of Neuropsychiatry, Asakayama General Hospital, Sakai-ku, Sakai-city, Osaka 590-0018, Japen.
Brain Nerve. 2008 Dec;60(12):1463-9.
Neuropsychiatric disturbances are common and burdensome symptoms of dementia. Assessment and measurement of neuropsychiatric disturbances are indispensable to the management of patients with dementia. Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is a comprehensive assessment tool that evaluates psychiatric symptoms in dementia. The Nursing Home Version (NPI-NH) of NPI was developed for use in extended care facilitate caring for residents with dementia. We translated the NPI-NH into Japanese and examined their validity and reliability.
The subjects were 100 demented inpatients and the nurses in charge of them. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was conducted with all patients and NPI-NH, Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (CMAI), Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD), and Behavior Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease (BEHAVE-AD) Rating Scale were conducted with the nurses. We examined validity of NPI-NH by comparing its score with the CMAI, CSDD, and BEHAVE-AD. In order to evaluate test-retest reliability, NPI-NH was re-adopted to 30 randomly selected nurses in charge inpatients by a different examiner 1 week later.
The frequency score, severity score and occupational disruptiveness score in each NPI-NH item were significantly correlated with the score of the correspondent item in BEHAVE-AD. The agitation score of NPI-NH was significantly correlated with CMAI and the depression score of NPI-NH was significantly correlated with CSDD. Test-retest reliability of the scores of NPI-NH was acceptably high.
The Japanese version of NPI-NH demonstrated sufficient validity and reliability as well as the original version of them. It is a useful tool for evaluating psychiatric symptoms in demented inpatients.
神经精神障碍是痴呆常见且负担沉重的症状。神经精神障碍的评估和测量对于痴呆患者的管理不可或缺。神经精神科问卷(NPI)是一种评估痴呆患者精神症状的综合评估工具。NPI的养老院版(NPI-NH)专为长期护理机构中照顾痴呆患者而开发。我们将NPI-NH翻译成日语,并检验其有效性和可靠性。
对象为100名痴呆住院患者及其责任护士。对所有患者进行简易精神状态检查表(MMSE)检查,对护士进行NPI-NH、科恩-曼斯菲尔德激越量表(CMAI)、康奈尔痴呆抑郁量表(CSDD)和阿尔茨海默病行为病理评定量表(BEHAVE-AD)检查。通过将NPI-NH的得分与CMAI、CSDD和BEHAVE-AD进行比较,检验NPI-NH的有效性。为评估重测信度,1周后由另一名检查者对30名随机选取的负责住院患者的护士重新采用NPI-NH。
NPI-NH各项目的频率得分、严重程度得分和职业干扰得分与BEHAVE-AD相应项目的得分显著相关。NPI-NH的激越得分与CMAI显著相关,NPI-NH的抑郁得分与CSDD显著相关。NPI-NH得分的重测信度较高。
日语版NPI-NH与原版一样具有足够的有效性和可靠性。它是评估痴呆住院患者精神症状的有用工具。