TABLE 3.
Significant (p <.01) Bivariate Correlations Between Corresponding NPI and OABCL Narrow-band Scales
| OABCL Scales | Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Scales |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delusions | Hallucinations | Agitation | Depression | Anxiety | Apathy | Disinhibition | Irritability | |
| Adaptive Functioning | ||||||||
| Personal Strengths | −.61 | |||||||
| Syndromes | ||||||||
| Anxious/Depressed | .53 | .57 | ||||||
| Worries | .61 | |||||||
| Functional Impairment | .51 | |||||||
| Thought Problems | .57 | .63 | ||||||
| Irritable/Disinhibited | .55 | .49 | .68 | |||||
| DSM-Oriented Scales | ||||||||
| Depressive Problems | .59 | |||||||
| Anxiety Problems | .62 | |||||||
| Psychotic Problems | .72 | .65 | ||||||
| Antisocial Personality Problems | .67 | |||||||
N = 47. The Older Adult Behavior Checklist (OABCL) was independently completed by informants at a mean of 9.5 days (SD = 2.9) before the NPI was administered to the informants by clinical interviewers over the phone. The NPI scale scores were the sum of the problems reported on each scale. Correlations are Pearson rs, all of which were p <.01 and exceeded chance expectations for the number of analyses (Sakoda et al., 1954).