Severe Agitation in Dementia: An Explorative Secondary Data Analysis on the Prevalence and Associated Factors in Nursing Home Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The phenomena of severe agitation is not well understood and often not adequately treated.

Objective

This article determines the prevalence and associated factors of severe agitation in nursing home residents with dementia.

Methods

Secondary data analysis within an observational study in German nursing homes with n = 1,967 participants. We assessed severity of agitation with the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire (NPI-Q) and defined the construct of agitation as a composite score of the NPI-Q items agitation/aggression, disinhibition, and irritability/lability; the dependent variable of severe agitation was considered as being present in residents who scored 'severe' in at least one of these symptoms. A binary logistic regression model was calculated

SUBMITTER: Palm R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6294574 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature