Wrist accelerometry for monitoring dementia agitation behaviour in clinical settings: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT: Agitated behaviour among elderly people with dementia is a challenge in clinical management. Wrist accelerometry could be a versatile tool for making objective, quantitative, and long-term assessments. The objective of this review was to summarise the clinical application of wrist accelerometry to agitation assessments and ways of analysing the data. Two authors independently searched the electronic databases CINAHL, PubMed, PsycInfo, EMBASE, and Web of Science. Nine (n = 9) articles were eligible for a review. Our review found a significant association between the activity levels (frequency and entropy) measured by accelerometers and the benchmark instrument of agitated behaviour. However, the performance of wrist accelerometry in identifying the occurrence of agitation episodes wa

SUBMITTER: Cheung JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9523077 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature