PMID- 21749190
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20111007
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1362-301X (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-9052 (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 10
DP  - 2011
TI  - Inter-rater reliability of the Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX): comparative data 
      from non-clinician respondents-all raters are not equal.
PG  - 997-1004
LID - 10.3109/02699052.2011.597046 [doi]
AB  - PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: The Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) is used to obtain 
      information about executive and emotional problems after neuropathology. The DEX 
      is self-completed by the patient (DEX-S) and an independent rater such as a 
      family member (DEX-I). This study examined the level of inter-rater agreement 
      between either two or three non-clinician raters on the DEX-I in order to 
      establish the reliability of DEX-I ratings. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: Family 
      members and/or carers of 60 people with mixed neuropathology completed the DEX-I. 
      For each patient, DEX-I ratings were obtained from either two or three raters who 
      knew the person well prior to brain injury. MAIN OUTCOMES AND RESULTS: This study 
      obtained two independent-ratings for 60 patients and three independent-ratings 
      for 36 patients. Intra-class correlations revealed that there was only a modest 
      level of agreement for items, sub-scale and total DEX scores between raters for 
      their particular family member. Several individual DEX items had low reliability 
      and ratings for the emotion sub-scale had the lowest level of agreement. 
      CONCLUSIONS: Independent DEX ratings completed by two or more non-clinician 
      raters show only moderate correlation. Suggestions are made for improving the 
      reliability of DEX-I ratings.
FAU - Barker, Lynne Ann
AU  - Barker LA
AD  - Department of Psychology, Sheffield Hallam University , UK. l.barker@shu.ac.uk
FAU - Morton, Nicholas
AU  - Morton N
FAU - Morrison, Todd Graham
AU  - Morrison TG
FAU - McGuire, Brian Edward
AU  - McGuire BE
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20110712
PL  - England
TA  - Brain Inj
JT  - Brain injury
JID - 8710358
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Brain Injuries/complications/*psychology
MH  - *Caregivers
MH  - *Executive Function
MH  - *Family
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Observer Variation
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/*standards
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Research Design
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Treatment Outcome
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2011/07/14 06:00
MHDA- 2011/10/08 06:00
CRDT- 2011/07/14 06:00
PHST- 2011/07/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/07/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/10/08 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.3109/02699052.2011.597046 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Brain Inj. 2011;25(10):997-1004. doi: 10.3109/02699052.2011.597046. Epub 2011 Jul 
      12.