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Behaviour rating scales for older people with dementia: Which is the best for use by nurses?
Author(s) -
Neville Christine C.,
Byrne Gerard J. A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australasian journal on ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-6612
pISSN - 1440-6381
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2001.tb00381.x
Subject(s) - dementia , rating scale , scale (ratio) , psychology , measure (data warehouse) , work (physics) , nursing homes , medicine , nursing , developmental psychology , computer science , data mining , physics , disease , pathology , quantum mechanics , mechanical engineering , engineering
There is increasing awareness of the importance of disruptive behaviour in people with dementia and the need for rating scales to accurately and reliably measure this behaviour. When rating scales are to be administered by nurses, scale characteristics must take into account the limitations of the nursing role and the nature of the environment in which nurses work. This paper reviews thirty‐one rating scales that have been used to measure behaviour in dementia. From this analysis, five scales were identified as suitable for use by nurses when measuring disruptive behaviour in older people with dementia .