Moon Yeonsil, Kim Hee-Jin, Choi Hojin, Oh Seong-il, Han Seol-Heui
Department of Neurology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea.
Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
J Korean Med Sci. 2014 Mar;29(3):411-5. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2014.29.3.411. Epub 2014 Feb 27.
Anticipatory dementia is related to anxiety, which is a clinical predictor of early conversion to Alzheimer's disease. The Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale (FADS) is a reliable and valid instrument to address anticipatory dementia. The aim of the present investigation was to develop the Korean version of the Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale (K-FADS) and to verify its reliability and validity. We developed the K-FADS to consist of 30 items with total scores ranging from 0 to 120, as in the original FADS. One hundred eight healthy volunteer participants, drawn from 3 different university hospitals, were evaluated. The K-FADS revealed good reliability (Cronbach α=0.96) and good validity as compared to the Korean version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form (r=0.242, P=0.013). Test-retest reliability was excellent, as the intra-class correlation coefficient comparing the retest to test was 0.98 (95% confidence interval, 0.96-0.99). Our results show that the K-FADS is a suitable and valuable scale to assess anticipatory dementia in elderly Koreans.
预期性痴呆与焦虑有关，焦虑是早期转化为阿尔茨海默病的临床预测指标。阿尔茨海默病恐惧量表（FADS）是一种用于评估预期性痴呆的可靠且有效的工具。本研究的目的是开发阿尔茨海默病恐惧量表韩语版（K-FADS）并验证其信效度。我们开发的K-FADS由30个项目组成，总分范围为0至120分，与原始FADS相同。对来自3家不同大学医院的108名健康志愿者进行了评估。与韩语版状态-特质焦虑量表相比，K-FADS显示出良好的信效度（克朗巴哈α系数=0.96）（r=0.242，P=0.013）。重测信度极佳，重测与初测的组内相关系数为0.98（95%置信区间，0.96-0.99）。我们的结果表明，K-FADS是评估韩国老年人预期性痴呆的合适且有价值的量表。
