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Journal of Brain and Neurology | Volume 3
allied
academies
March 14-16, 2019 | London, UK
12
th
International Conference on
8
th
International Conference on
Vascular Dementia and Dementia
Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Joint Event
&
I
n addition to cognitive impairment, behavioral and
psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are another
important aspect of most dementia patients including post-
stroke dementia. We attempted to create a new BPSD score for
dementia with 10 BPSD items. This new simple BPSD score was
compared to a standard-detailed BPSD score neuropsychiatric
inventory (NPI) for a possible correlation (n=792) and a time
to complete (n=136). Inter-rater reliability was examined
comparing scores between main and second caregivers (n = 70)
for AD. Based on the clinical survey for local caregivers, a new
BPSD score for dementia (ABS, Abe’s BPSD score) was newly
created, in which each BPSD item was allotted by an already-
weighted score (maximum 1–9) based on the frequency and
severity, and was finalized with taking temporal occurrences
into account. ABS was filled by the main caregiver with a full
score of 44, was well correlated with NPI (r = 0.716, **p < 0.01)
in 792 AD patients (age 78.6 ± 7.0 years, MMSE 19.0 ± 5.9),
and took a shorter time as only 56.8 ± 38.8 s (**p < 0.01) than
NPI score (132.7 ± 94.0 s) with 136 AD patients. A high inter-
rater reliability was obtained (r = 0.964, **p < 0.01) with a little
smaller score (0.877 time) of ABS in secondary than the main
caregivers. Thus ABS provides a new simple and quick test for
BPSD assessment, with a good correlation to NPI but a shorter
time, and with a high inter-rater reliability.
Speaker Biography
Koji Abe is chairman of Neurology at Okayama University Medical School in Japan. He
graduated Tohoku University School of Medicine (M.D.) and then got PhD title from
Tohoku University under the direction of Prof. Kyuya Kogure. He published more than
600 papers on cerebral blood flow and metabolism and neurodegenerative diseases.
He is the past president of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and
Metabolism (CBFM) and organized World CBFM meeting in Osaka in 2007 and Japan-
Asia CBFM meeting Okayama city in 2014. He is currently serving Presidents of both
Vas-Cog Japan and Vas-Cog Asia societies.
e:
abekabek
@cc.okayama-u.ac.jpKoji Abe
Okayama University, Japan
A new simple score for assessing Behavioral and Psychological symptoms of Dementia
(Abe’s BPSD score = ABS)