Naslov
Croatian translation of the Tau-Assess dementia assessment tool aplication for smartphone

Autori
MImica, Ninoslav ; Subić, Helena ; Wischik, Marcus ; Wischik, Damon ; Wischik, M. Claude

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Abstract Booklet of the 29th International Conference of Alzheimer's disease International / - London : Delhi : Alzheimer's Disease International, 2014, 159-159

Skup
29th International Conference of Alzheimer's disease International

Mjesto i datum
San Juan, Portoriko, 01.05.2014. - 04.05.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
dementia; rating instrument; smartphone; CAMDEX

Sažetak
The timely recognition of dementia, as well as monitoring the clinical progression of dementia symptoms very important. This is the first time an "instrument rating" tool has been translated into the Croatian language. It ili be used in an application for smartphone. The app provides a sensitive, reliable, secure and easy to administer ementia assessment that can be used by a wide range of medical and other healthcare staff and will be especially uitable for home-based assessments. By using this app, continuous monitoring of clinical and eognitive function of erontopsychiatric patients will be available through a combination of expert judgment and assessment scales based in the short form of the CAMDEX (Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly). Results of a one year d 11 o w- ti p st u d y, w h ic h compared the sensitivity and specificity of the short and full forrns of the CAMDEX, provided )n 73 subjects meeting DSM-III-R criteria for dementia and 61 matched controls, shovved that the short form appears to maintain most of the psychometric properties of the full version. In addition to the standard CAMDEX scores (organicity, cognition and depression) which provide simple sums of items, the app-based assessment also provides eognitive (Tcog) and non-eognitive (Tdem) seores based on an item information content algorithm vvhich cannot be calculated by simple summation of items. Until now, monitoring and evaluation of dementia patients was only possible by frequent outpatient examinations. Due to distance and the small number of psychiatrists who practice gerontopsychiatry in Croatia, intensive clinical assessment was problematic logistically and burdensome for patient and the carers. The introduetion of a powerful assessment tool of this kind will facilitate diagnosis of suspeeted dementia, as well as monitoring of patients. The application of this instrument will give us a better insight into the funetioning of the patient and will greatly improve the current more intensive assessment model. In this way it will be easier to estimate and monitor the effects of administered drugs, especially antidementia drugs.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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