JW Wang
China
Research Article
Analysis of Related Factors of Behavioral and Psychiatric Symptoms in Vascular Dementia
Author(s): HF Chen, XL Pan, HM Kong, YM Fu, CC Hu, JW Wang and HJ ShaoHF Chen, XL Pan, HM Kong, YM Fu, CC Hu, JW Wang and HJ Shao
Objective: The aims of this study were to investigate the relationship between behavioral and psychological symptoms and cognitive disturbances, ages, educations of patients and investigate the correlations among Neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI) items in patients with vascular dementia (VaD). Methods: NPI and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) were used to assess the behavioral and psychological symptoms in 120 cases with VaD and 61 cases healthy elders as control group.
Results: The score about delusion, hallucination, agitation, dysphoria, apathy, irritability, aberrant motor and appetite/eating change in the NPI list were significantly increased compared with control group (P<0.05), in which the highest score in turn were dysphoria, apathy and irritability. Among the 8 items in the NPI list.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2378-5756.1000338