PMID- 15526310
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050426
LR  - 20161124
IS  - 0885-6230 (Print)
IS  - 0885-6230 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 12
DP  - 2004 Dec
TI  - A pilot study of behavioural and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia in 
      patients of Indian sub-continent origin admitted to a dementia day hospital in 
      the United Kingdom.
PG  - 1195-204
AB  - BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of cross-cultural studies of behavioural and 
      psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). METHOD: BPSD were examined in a 
      consecutive series of Indian sub-continent origin and white indigenous elders 
      admitted to a dementia day hospital using the BEHAVE-AD. The correlates of 
      individual BPSD in each of the two ethnic groups and the differences between the 
      two ethnic groups were examined. RESULTS: There were no differences between the 
      two groups on most of the demographic and clinical variables examined, except 
      that Indian sub-continent elders had a greater number of children. There were no 
      differences between the two groups on the MMSE scores, BEHAVE-AD total scores and 
      BEHAVE-AD subscale scores (with one exception). Indian sub- continent origin 
      patients had lower scores on the anxiety and phobias subscale. Within the Indian 
      sub-continent origin group, Alzheimer's disease (AD) was associated with activity 
      disturbance and vascular dementia with affective disturbance. Within the 
      indigenous group, aggressivity was associated with males and prescription of 
      neuroleptics, and affective disturbance with prescription of antidepressants. 
      CONCLUSION: There is a need to develop and evaluate translated versions of 
      instruments that measure BPSD. After development of these instruments there is a 
      need for cross-cultural population-based epidemiological studies of BPSD.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
FAU - Haider, Imran
AU  - Haider I
AD  - West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
FAU - Shah, Ajit
AU  - Shah A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Int J Geriatr Psychiatry
JT  - International journal of geriatric psychiatry
JID - 8710629
SB  - IM
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Dementia/epidemiology/*psychology
MH  - Drug Prescriptions
MH  - Family
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/ethnology
MH  - Length of Stay
MH  - Male
MH  - Marital Status
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Time Factors
MH  - United Kingdom/epidemiology
EDAT- 2004/11/05 09:00
MHDA- 2005/04/27 09:00
CRDT- 2004/11/05 09:00
PHST- 2004/11/05 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/04/27 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/11/05 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1002/gps.1245 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2004 Dec;19(12):1195-204. doi: 10.1002/gps.1245.