Detecting Anosognosia from the Prodromal Stage of Alzheimer's Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Though not originally developed for this purpose, the Healthy Aging Brain Care Monitor (HABC-M) seems a valuable instrument for assessing anosognosia in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Objectives

Our study aimed at 1) investigating the validity of the HABC-M (31 items), and its cognitive, psychological, and functional subscales, in discriminating AD patients from controls; 2) exploring whether the HABC-M discrepancy scores between the self-reports of patients/controls in these different domains and the respective ratings provided by their caregivers/informants correlate with an online measure of self-awareness; 3) determining whether the caregiver burden level, also derived from the HABC-M, could add additional support for detecting anosognosia.

Methods

The HABC-

SUBMITTER: Guieysse T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10578267 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature