Comparative analysis in psychological and behavioral symptom of patients with Alzheimer's disease in home and resthome

VernacularTitle:居家和养老院阿尔茨海默病患者精神行为症状的比较分析
Author: Xia FU ; Meifen ZHANG ; June ZHANG ; Ke LIU
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Alzbeimer's disease; Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia; Comparison
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2009;25(13):68-71
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To understand the influene of inhabited environment on psychological and be-havioral symptom of dementia (BPSD) in patients with Alzbeimer's disease. Methods Nenrepsychiatric in-ventory was used to measure the occurrence of BPSD of 100 home and 100 resthome patients with Alzheimer's disease.Tbe data were analyzed with software SPSS version 13.0. Results The scores of hallucinations, anxi-ety,aberrant motor behavior and sleep disturbance in resthome patients were significant higher than those of home patients.There was significantly difference in the extent of occurrence in aberrant motor behavior, apathy/ indifference, hallucinations, sleep disturbance, anxiety,depression/dysphoria and appetite/eating disorders be-tween home and resthome patients,among which the extent of occurrence in resthome patients was higher except for body weight decreasing and appetite/eating disoniers. Conclusions The occurrence of BPSD is different according to different inhabited environment, symptoms of resthome patients are worse, so families should be ap-pealed as far as possibile to allow AD patients living at home.