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- Title
Determinants of the quality of life in Alzheimer's disease patients as assessed by the Japanese version of the Quality of Life-Alzheimer's disease scale.
- Authors
Matsui, Teruo; Nakaaki, Shutaro; Murata, Yoshie; Sato, Junko; Shinagawa, Yoshihiro; Tatsumi, Hiroshi; Furukawa, Toshiaki A
- Abstract
Although QOL is an important indicator to assess multiple facets of life, the QOL of Alzheimer's disease (AD) subjects with impaired cognitive ability due to dementia has not yet been fully investigated. In this study, we developed the Japanese version of the Quality of Life-Alzheimer's disease (QOL-AD) scale by means of back-translation, and ascertained its reliability and validity for evaluating the quality of life in AD subjects. We also hypothesized that the presence of neuropsychiatric symptoms may determine the characteristics and determinants of both the patients' and the caregivers' responses to the patients' QOL questionnaire.
- Publication
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders, 2006, Vol 21, Issue 3, p182
- ISSN
1420-8008
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1159/000090744