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. 2007 Dec;22(6):528–534. doi: 10.1177/1533317507307032

Integrating Patient and Informant Reports on the Cornell-Brown Quality-of-Life Scale

Rebecca E Ready 1, Brian R Ott 2
PMCID: PMC10846188  PMID: 18166612

Abstract

Patients with mild cognitive impairment and mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease can provide information about their quality of life. This study determined whether aggregating patient and informant quality-of-life reports on the Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life in Dementia can provide a broader perspective on the quality of life relative to patient or informant reports separately. Aggregated Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life in Dementia scores were hypothesized to correlate more strongly with both patient and informant perspectives of patient's memory, function, and neuropsychiatric symptoms than the unaggregated measures. Results indicated that aggregated Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life in Dementia scores reflected a blend of patient and informant perspectives on patient function. This study contributes to a growing line of research that recommends integrating patient and informant perspectives to achieve the most complete assessment of quality of life.

Keywords: quality of life, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer's disease, neuropsychiatric symptoms, instrumental activities of daily living, memory problems

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Contributor Information

Rebecca E. Ready, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, ready@psych.umass.edu .

Brian R. Ott, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island.

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