PMID- 15761273
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050510
LR  - 20230606
IS  - 1543-3633 (Print)
IS  - 1543-3633 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 1
DP  - 2005 Mar
TI  - A review of rating scales for measuring behavior change due to frontal systems 
      damage.
PG  - 18-27
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To perform a critical review of scales designed to measure frontal 
      behavior change. BACKGROUND: Changes in cognition due to frontal disease or 
      damage have been well described, but noncognitive changes in behavior are often 
      more deleterious functionally for frontal patients. METHOD: The review 
      concentrates on five behavior rating scales: the Behavior Rating Inventory of 
      Executive Functions (BRIEF), the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX), the Frontal 
      Behavior Inventory (FBI), the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe), the Iowa 
      Rating Scales of Personality Change (IRSPC), and the Neuropsychiatric Inventory 
      (NPI). Other scales purporting to measure specific aspects of frontal 
      functioning, but having less research support, are described briefly. RESULTS AND 
      CONCLUSIONS: The BRIEF and FrSBe have good reliability and large-scale norms. No 
      norms are available for the other scales. The FrSBe and IRSPC have been shown to 
      be valid in discriminating frontal from nonfrontal lesioned patients, but this 
      has not been shown in the other scales. The FBI and NPI require trained raters, 
      whereas the FrSBe, IRSPC, and BRIEF are administered to patients and/or family 
      informants directly. The NPI and FBI are sensitive to certain changes in behavior 
      attributed to frontal systems disruption but have been used primarily in 
      dementia.
FAU - Malloy, Paul
AU  - Malloy P
AD  - Brown University Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. 
      Paul_Malloy@brown.edu
FAU - Grace, Janet
AU  - Grace J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Cogn Behav Neurol
JT  - Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for 
      Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology
JID - 101167278
SB  - IM
MH  - Brain Injuries/*complications/*psychology
MH  - Cognition Disorders/*classification/*etiology
MH  - Frontal Lobe/*injuries/*pathology
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
RF  - 60
EDAT- 2005/03/12 09:00
MHDA- 2005/05/11 09:00
CRDT- 2005/03/12 09:00
PHST- 2005/03/12 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/05/11 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/03/12 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 00146965-200503000-00003 [pii]
AID - 10.1097/01.wnn.0000152232.47901.88 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Cogn Behav Neurol. 2005 Mar;18(1):18-27. doi: 10.1097/01.wnn.0000152232.47901.88.