Interinformant Agreement of the Dementia Questionnaire for People with Learning Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Walker, Brigid; MacBryer, Shona; Jones, Alan; Law, Jim
Titel	Interinformant Agreement of the Dementia Questionnaire for People with Learning Disabilities
Quelle	In: British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43 (2015) 3, S.227-233 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1354-4187
DOI	10.1111/bld.12102
Schlagwörter	Dementia; Questionnaires; Down Syndrome; Neuropsychology; Mental Retardation; Scores; Interviews; Interrater Reliability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demenz; Fragebogen; 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Neuropsychologie; Geistige Behinderung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Interrater-Reliabilität
Abstract	Because of difficulties with neuropsychological assessments for dementia in people with learning disabilities, professionals in clinical practice have relied heavily on carer interviews, one of the most widely used being the "Dementia Questionnaire for People with Learning Disabilities" (DLD-Evenhuis et al. 2006 "Dementia questionnaire for people with intellectual disabilities manual" (second edition). Amsterdam, Netherlands, Harcourt Test Publishers). Because dementia is indicated by the magnitude of changes in scores between longitudinal assessments, interinformant agreement is paramount. We carried out the DLD interview independently with two carers for each of 26 people with Down's syndrome. Only 15% of pairs of carers achieved "good" agreement. Levels of agreement varied widely across the DLD subscales and individual questions. Interinformant agreement was better for less able people with Down's syndrome than for more able individuals. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01