Assessment of apathy in neurological patients using the Apathy Motivation Index caregiver version.

ABSTRACT: Apathy is a common, disabling neuropsychiatric syndrome that occurs across many brain disorders and may be associated with diminished motivation in behavioural, cognitive, emotional and social domains. Assessment is complicated by the variability of symptoms across apathy domains and self-report from patients, which can be misleading due to their lack of insight. Independent evaluation by clinicians also has limitations though if it has to be performed with limited time. Caregiver reports are a viable alternative, but current assessments for them either do not distinguish between different apathy domains or are interview-based and take long to administer. In this study, we developed a brief caregiver questionnaire version of the recently developed Apathy Motivation Index (AMI), which is a

SUBMITTER: Klar VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9290131 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature