Adapting instruments for caregiver research in elderly Japanese American women.

Accounting for cultural differences in caregiver research is now widely recognized. However, adapting instruments to assure reliable and valid data across cultures has been neglected, leading to concerns about information obtained in cross cultural research. This paper discusses instrumentation issues which influence the assessment of information in elderly women of Japanese descent who are caregivers to persons with dementia.

The birth of the RCMI Clinical Research Center is a joint venture of the University of Hawaii and Kapiolani Health.

Hawaii established a Clinical Research Center with collaboration from the University of Hawaii Pacific Biomedical Research Center, the John A. Burns School of Medicine and Kapiolani Health via a five year award from the Research Centers in Minority Institutions of the National Institutes of Health. Support offered includes consultative services for protocol design; epidemiological and biostatistical analysis; design of study forms; and data and specimen collection and analysis.

Frequency and characteristics of silent dementia among elderly Japanese-American men. The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study.

Objective: To determine the frequency of unrecognized dementia in a group of men found to have dementia by population survey, and to identify factors associated with the failure of a family informant to recognize significant memory impairment.

Design And Setting: The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, a population-based study of dementia among elderly Japanese-American men living on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Data for this study were from the dementia prevalence survey, 1991-1993.

The dexamethasone suppression test in agoraphobia.

Patients diagnosed as having agoraphobia with panic attacks by DSM-III criteria were evaluated with the dexamethasone suppression test (DST). Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory, the Depression Scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression. Of 97 patients tested, 12.