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The kingston dementia rating scale
Author(s) -
Pelletier Frederick L.,
Hopkins Robert W.,
Hamilton Pamela F.
Publication year - 1991
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/gps.930060407
Subject(s) - dementia , rating scale , normative , psychology , psychometrics , reliability (semiconductor) , psychiatry , scale (ratio) , test validity , clinical psychology , gerontology , medicine , developmental psychology , disease , philosophy , power (physics) , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , pathology
A dementia rating scale for use with psychogeriatric patients, published initially by Lawson et al. (1977), has been subjected to a number of revisions and is now presented as the Kingston Dementia Rating Scale (KDRS). Item content has been modified, and the administration and scoring instructions have been elaborated. Psychometric studies supporting the reliability and validity of the KDRS are reported, and normative data obtained from a sample of 237 psychogeriatric patients are summarized and presented.