TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuropsychological assessment of the severely impaired elderly patient
T2 - Validation of the Italian short version of the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB)
AU - Pippi, M.
AU - Mecocci, P.
AU - Saxton, J.
AU - Bartorelli, L.
AU - Pettenati, C.
AU - Bonaiuto, S.
AU - Cucinotta, D.
AU - Masaraki, G.
AU - Neri, M.
AU - Tammaro, A. E.
AU - Vergani, C.
AU - Chionne, F.
AU - Senin, U.
PY - 1999/8
Y1 - 1999/8
N2 - One hundred and sixty-nine severely demented patients were tested in a multicenter study with the short version of the Severe Impairment Battery which was translated into Italian with the purpose of adapting and validating it for an Italian population. Patients were enrolled in Italian geriatric centers participating in the Study Group on Aging Brain of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Following thorough clinical and instrumental examinations, they were evaluated with the Mini Mental State Examination, the Clinical Dementia Rating, the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB), the Gottfries-Brane-Steen Rating Scale for Dementia, the Activity of Daily Living index, and the Bedford Alzheimer Nursing Severity scale (BANS.s). The inter-rater reliability of the SIB was highly significant for the total score and its subtests; test-retest reliability showed the same significance in all items. Also concurrent validity, performed comparing the total SIB score with the total BANS.s score, was significant. The short Italian version of the SIB proved to be a very reliable tool for the evaluation of severely demented patients; it has the advantage of being easy to administer, it evaluates more cognitive domains than are typically assessed in dementia, and has a wide enough range of scores to detect even small differences in the examined abilities.
AB - One hundred and sixty-nine severely demented patients were tested in a multicenter study with the short version of the Severe Impairment Battery which was translated into Italian with the purpose of adapting and validating it for an Italian population. Patients were enrolled in Italian geriatric centers participating in the Study Group on Aging Brain of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Following thorough clinical and instrumental examinations, they were evaluated with the Mini Mental State Examination, the Clinical Dementia Rating, the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB), the Gottfries-Brane-Steen Rating Scale for Dementia, the Activity of Daily Living index, and the Bedford Alzheimer Nursing Severity scale (BANS.s). The inter-rater reliability of the SIB was highly significant for the total score and its subtests; test-retest reliability showed the same significance in all items. Also concurrent validity, performed comparing the total SIB score with the total BANS.s score, was significant. The short Italian version of the SIB proved to be a very reliable tool for the evaluation of severely demented patients; it has the advantage of being easy to administer, it evaluates more cognitive domains than are typically assessed in dementia, and has a wide enough range of scores to detect even small differences in the examined abilities.
KW - Elderly
KW - Neuropsychological scale
KW - Severe dementia
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M3 - Article
C2 - 10605610
AN - SCOPUS:0032701313
VL - 11
SP - 221
EP - 226
JO - Aging clinical and experimental research
JF - Aging clinical and experimental research
SN - 1594-0667
IS - 4
ER -