Disruptive behavior and actigraphic measures in home-dwelling patients with Alzheimer's disease: preliminary report. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The purpose of this preliminary report was to explore overall level and diurnal patterning of caregiver reports of abnormal behavior and to explore relationships with actigraphic measures of sleep/wake activity in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Our primary behavioral measure was the Time-based Behavioral Disturbance Questionnaire (TBDQ). The overall score on this measure was shown to have adequate test-retest reliability and convergent validity with another behavioral measure. Significant correlations were obtained between the TBDQ overall score and actigraphically scored sleep efficiency (r = -.35, P < .05) and wake after sleep onset (r = .43, P < .01) in 41 subjects. The data suggest a moderate relationship between actigraphic measures of sleep/wake and disturbed behavior in home-dwelling AD patients.

publication date

  • April 1, 1997

Research

keywords

  • Alzheimer Disease
  • Home Nursing
  • Psychomotor Agitation
  • Social Behavior Disorders

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0030818237

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1177/089198879701000204

PubMed ID

  • 9188020

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 10

issue

  • 2