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Caregiver-Administered Neuropsychiatric Inventory (CGA-NPI)

Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Seong Hye Choi, MD

Department of Neurology, College of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea

Byung Hwa Lee, MA

Yong Jeong, MD

Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Dong Seok Hahm, MD

Il Woo Han, MD

Yongin Geriatric Hospital, Yongin, South Korea

Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD

Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine

Duk L. Na, MD

Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, 50 Ilwon-dong Kangnam-ku, Seoul, 135-710, South Korea dukna{at}smc.samsung.co.kr.

The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is used to assess neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia patients. To reduce clinicians’ time taken to administer the NPI, the authors studied a caregiver-administered NPI (CGA-NPI), in which caregivers completed the written form of the NPI worksheet. After a brief presupervision session, the caregivers of 61 dementia patients completed the CGA-NPI by reading through the worksheet. This was followed by a postsupervision session to check if the caregivers had completed the form appropriately. The correlation between the prevalence rates of each neuropsychiatric symptom obtained by the CGA-NPI and those obtained by the NPI was fair to good (. = 0.57-0.90) in all domains. All frequency, severity, and caregivers’ distress scores of the CGA-NPI correlated significantly with those of the NPI (r> 0.6, P< .001). Total CGA-NPI scores also correlated highly with total NPI scores (r= 0.86, P< .001). These results suggest that the CGA-NPI can substitute for the NPI, saving administration time.

Key Words: dementia • Neuropsychiatric Inventory • NPI • caregiver-administered NPI • CGA-NPI

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, Vol. 17, No. 1, 32-35 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/089198873258818


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