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Manchester and Oxford Universities Scale for the Psychopathological Assessment of Dementia (MOUSEPAD)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

N. H. P. Allen ,
Sheila Gordon ,
Tony Hope  and
Alistair Burns
N. H. P. Allen*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences
Sheila Gordon
Affiliation:
University of Manchester School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences
Tony Hope
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford
Alistair Burns
Affiliation:
University of Manchester School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences
*
Dr N. H. P. Allen, Consultant Psychiatrist for the Elderly, Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust, Psychiatry Directorate, York House, York Place, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9WL
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Abstract

Background

There is increasing awareness of the importance of psychopathological and behavioural changes in dementia and a need for an instrument to measure these features which achieves an appropriate compromise between brevity and breadth. We describe a newly developed 59-item instrument: the MOUSEPAD.

Method

Reliability, sensitivity and validity were examined with 30 carers, each of whom was interviewed four times over six weeks.

Results

For different symptom groups, kappa ranged from 0.43 to 0.93 for test–retest reliability, from 0.56 to 1.0 for inter-rater reliability, and from 0.43 to 0.67 for the validation study.

Conclusions

The scale may be useful as an outcome measure in drug trials, for correlating psychopathological and behavioural changes with post-mortem findings, and in epidemiological surveys.

Type
Papers
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 169 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 293 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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