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Behavioural disturbances in psychiatric inpatients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type in Taiwan
Author(s) -
Hwang JenPing,
Yang ChengHung,
Tsai ShihJen,
Liu KingMing
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199709)12:9<902::aid-gps660>3.0.co;2-q
Subject(s) - dementia , psychiatry , aggression , sleep disorder , psychology , hoarding (animal behavior) , disturbance (geology) , cognition , cognitive disorder , behavioural disorders , cognitive impairment , clinical psychology , medicine , disease , feeding behavior , paleontology , biology
This report studied behavioural disturbances in psychiatric inpatients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) in Taiwan. The sample consisted of 75 inpatients with DAT who were consecutively admitted to the geropsychiatric ward. Their behavioural disturbances were obtained from semistructured interviews with families and ward observation. There were eight main behavioural disturbances: getting lost, repetitive phenomena, sleep disturbance, aggression, wandering, hyperphagia, hoarding behaviour, and inappropriate sexual behaviour. Number of behavioural disturbances, wandering, hyperphagia and sleep disturbance were significantly associated with the severity of cognitive impairment. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.