Prioritizing problem features in Korean patients with senile dementia for implementation of monitoring technologies

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the central problem features of Korean patients with senile dementia and to prioritize the features according to risk to the patient with a view to the implementation of remote monitoring technologies. Twenty central problem features were extract...

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Published in:Psychiatry research 2011-05, Vol.187 (3), p.418-423
Main Authors: Tack, Gye-Rae, Choi, Mi-Hyun, Lee, Su-Jeong, Yang, Jae-Woong, Kim, Ji-Hye, Choi, Jin-Seung, Jun, Jae-Hoon, Lee, Jeong-Whan, Park, Jang-Yeon, Moon, Seok-Woo, Chung, Soon-Cheol
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living
Adaptation, Psychological
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Alzheimer Disease - complications
Alzheimer Disease - diagnosis
Alzheimer Disease - epidemiology
Analysis of Variance
Behavioral Symptoms - etiology
Biological and medical sciences
Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases
Dementia
Diagnosis, Differential
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Geriatrics
Humans
Korea
Language
Male
Medical sciences
Monitoring, Physiologic - methods
Neurology
Perception
Problem features
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Risk
Severity of Illness Index
Sex Factors
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Summary:Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the central problem features of Korean patients with senile dementia and to prioritize the features according to risk to the patient with a view to the implementation of remote monitoring technologies. Twenty central problem features were extracted using factorial analysis. The frequency of violent language and confabulation, gathering, and repetition was significantly greater in female than in male patients with senile dementia. All central features, with the exception of abnormal sexual behavior and audiovisual deficits, differed in frequency between the normal elderly and the senile dementia patients and between patients with dementias of different severity. Judgment disorder was the greatest differentiating factor between the normal elderly and the patients with senile dementia. For dementia severity, memory disorder was the greatest differentiating factor of severe versus mild dementia. When risk to the patient was analyzed, problems of perception were identified as the problem features of highest priority.
ISSN:0165-1781
1872-7123
DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2010.06.031