Sources of Discomfort in Persons with Dementia: Scale and Initial Results
| Autor: | Maha Dakheel-Ali, Khin Thein, Marcia S. Marx, Barbara Jensen, Jiska Cohen-Mansfield |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Article Subject Emotions Population Pain Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry Physical examination Environment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation Intervention (counseling) mental disorders medicine Humans Dementia 030212 general & internal medicine Cognitive skill 10. No inequality education Physical Examination Aged Pain Measurement Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Neurology Scale (social sciences) Advanced dementia Physical therapy Female Functional status Neurology (clinical) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery RC321-571 Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Neurology Behavioural Neurology, Vol 2015 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1875-8584 0953-4180 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2015/732832 |
| Popis: | The Sources of Discomfort Scale (SODS) assesses discomfort manifestations based on source of discomfort, thus making it both distinct from and complementary to pain assessments for persons with dementia. Sources were categorized as pertaining to physical discomfort, to body position, and to environmental sources. Body position sources of discomfort were related to poor functional status and to pain. The SODS scores were not related to cognitive functioning, and sources of discomfort other than those pertaining to body position were not correlated with pain. This paper demonstrates a direct and enhanced method to detect the manifestations of discomfort separately from pain indicators in a population with advanced dementia. The determination of the source of discomfort has direct implications for intervention. |
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