Behavioural disturbances in psychiatric inpatients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type in Taiwan
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
- Vol. 12 (9) , 902-906
- https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199709)12:9<902::aid-gps660>3.0.co;2-q
Abstract
This report studied behavioural disturbances in psychiatric inpatients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) in Taiwan. The sample consisted of 75 inpatients with DAT who were consecutively admitted to the geropsychiatric ward. Their behavioural disturbances were obtained from semistructured interviews with families and ward observation. There were eight main behavioural disturbances: getting lost, repetitive phenomena, sleep disturbance, aggression, wandering, hyperphagia, hoarding behaviour, and inappropriate sexual behaviour. Number of behavioural disturbances, wandering, hyperphagia and sleep disturbance were significantly associated with the severity of cognitive impairment. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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