The influence of Alzheimer's disease stigma on pain assessment in older persons.

Introduction: Pain of nursing homes residents with Alzheimer's disease remains under detected compared to their cognitively intact counterparts. Communication difficulties may partly explain this poor quality of care but the influence of stigmatization on pain assessment has never been explored.

Research Question: The objective of this research was to analyze whether a diagnosis label of Alzheimer's disease or the stage of the disease may bias pain assessment scores and empathic reactions of health care staff in nursing homes.

Insomnia comorbid to Parkinson's disease Part II: Therapeutic approaches.

Insomnia is four times more frequent in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) than in the general population. In PD, insomnia is associated with a very significant decrease in quality of life and has deleterious consequences on both patients' and caregivers' health. When insomnia is comorbid to PD, the main therapeutic response is the prescription of benzodiazepines or related drugs.

Interrater Variability in Pain Assessment of Long-term Care Residents with Dementia.

Purpose: People with dementia are at great risk of their pain being undetected. In long-term care facilities, certified nursing assistants are on the front-line to detect whether a resident with dementia is experiencing pain, but research on certified nursing assistants' abilities to accurately assess pain are scarce. This study aims to examine certified nursing assistants' pain assessment skills using a simulated standardized video context.

[Insomnia comorbid to Parkinson's disease Part II: Therapeutic approaches].

Insomnia disorder is four times more frequent in Parkinson's disease (PD) than in the general population. In PD, insomnia is associated with a very significant decrease in quality of life and deleterious consequences on both patients and caregivers' health. The main therapeutic option in response to insomnia comorbid to PD is the prescription of benzodiazepines or related drugs.

[Insomnia comorbid to Parkinson's disease Part I: Epidemiology, assessment, and related factors].

Insomnia is a common complaint in Parkinson's disease (PD) affecting more than three-quarters of patients. Longitudinal studies show that insomnia complaint is a persistent condition in PD, especially in patients with more severe insomnia at baseline. When international and standardized criteria are used, it is estimated that more than half of the patients meet the criteria for insomnia disorder.

Mind-wandering and sleepiness in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Sleepiness and mind-wandering are frequently experienced by patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), without ever having been jointly explored. We aimed to investigate the co-occurrence of these two phenomena in ADHD adults. Drug-free ADHD adults (n = 25) and healthy controls (n = 28) underwent an online experience sampling of mind-wandering episodes and subjective sleepiness.

A moderated mediation model of the link between counterfactual processing at bedtime and insomnia diagnosis: The role of depressive symptoms and nocturnal maladaptive strategies of mental control.

This study investigated the relationship between bedtime counterfactual thoughts, depressive symptoms, nocturnal counterproductive thought-control strategies and insomnia disorder. Six hundred and fifty adults from the general population were recruited and provided data on their counterfactual thoughts' frequency at bedtime, depressive symptoms and use of nocturnal maladaptive strategies of thought control. In addition, all participants followed a face-to-face clinical interview for the diagnosis of insomnia disorder.

[Pain assessment of nursing home's residents by certified nursing assistants: a real-world study].

In French care facilities for dependent aged people (NHDAP), prevalence of pain among residents with dementia is high, and source of behavior disturbances and quality of life impairment. However, in spite of many international expert statements, pain remains under-assessed and under-managed in these patients. Certified nursing assistants (CNA) are on the front-line in NHDAP to detect the presence of pain in residents with communication difficulties, while they received little training for pain management and directives for specific care.

Presleep Cognitive Arousal and Insomnia Comorbid to Parkinson Disease: Evidence for a Serial Mediation Model of Sleep-Related Safety Behaviors and Dysfunctional Beliefs About Sleep.

Study Objectives: Insomnia disorder (ID) is highly associated with Parkinson disease (PD) with great negative effect on health-related quality of life. Nonetheless, the relevance of psychological processes involved in the maintenance of insomnia is yet to be established in the context of this neurological condition. Our aim was to examine a serial meditation model of sleep-related safety behaviors and dysfunctional beliefs about sleep in association with presleep cognitive arousal and ID in patients with PD.

Assessing Sleep-Related Safety Behaviors: Adaptation and Validation of a French Version of the Sleep-Related Behaviors Questionnaire in a Nonclinical Sample.

: Safety behaviors play a prominent role in the development and maintenance of insomnia. The Sleep-Related Behaviors Questionnaire (SRBQ) is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess safety behaviors employed to cope with fatigue or to improve sleep. Despite its frequent use in insomnia, no systematic psychometric validation of the SRBQ has been conducted; its factor structure has never been explored.

Psychological processes associated with insomnia in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Study Objectives: Despite the high comorbidity of insomnia disorder (ID) with multiple sclerosis (MS), the relevance of psychological processes involved in the maintenance of insomnia is yet to be established in this neurological disorder. This study aimed to ascertain to what extent the suggested emotional, cognitive, and behavioral processes maintaining insomnia are relevant in people with insomnia and MS.

Methods: A between-subjects design was used to compare 26 patients with insomnia and MS, with 31 patients with MS only, and with 26 matched neurological disease-free individuals with insomnia.

French Version of the Hayling Sentence Completion Test, Part II: Clinical Utility in Schizophrenia and Parkinson's Disease.

Objective: We previously developed normative data for a French version of the Hayling Sentence Completion Test (f-HSCT) for adults and elderly people. The present study aimed to evaluate the clinical utility of the f-HSCT norms in two clinical populations in which inhibition dysfunction has been largely documented, i.e.

French Version of the Hayling Sentence Completion Test, Part I: Normative Data and Guidelines for Error Scoring.

Objective: The Hayling Sentence Completion Test (HSCT) measures prepotent response inhibition, useful to assess inhibition deficit in a variety of clinical conditions. Despite its extensive use by numerous clinical and research groups in France, normative data for the HSCT are not yet available for French speakers.

Method: A French version of the HCST was administered to a sample of 426 healthy community-dwelling French speaking adults (20-87 years of age).

Case management for the elderly with complex needs: cross-linking the views of their role held by elderly people, their informal caregivers and the case managers.

Background: In 2009, case management interventions were a new social service in France implemented within the framework of the PRISMA-France program (2006-2010). People who had benefitted from case management intervention were individuals, over 60 years old living at home in situations deemed complex by professionals. Their informal caregivers were also considered as users of the service.

Multidimensional model of apathy in older adults using partial least squares--path modeling.

Apathy defined as a mental state characterized by a lack of goal-directed behavior is prevalent and associated with poor functioning in older adults. The main objective of this study was to identify factors contributing to the distinct dimensions of apathy (cognitive, emotional, and behavioral) in older adults without dementia. One hundred and fifty participants (mean age, 80.

Self-imagination can enhance memory in individuals with schizophrenia.

Objective: Previous research has demonstrated that self-referential strategies can be applied to improve memory in various memory- impaired populations. However, little is known regarding the relative effectiveness of self-referential strategies in schizophrenia patients. The main aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a new self-referential strategy known as self- imagination (SI) on a free recall task.

Destination Memory and Cognitive Theory of Mind in Alzheimer's Disease.

Destination memory, or the ability to remember the destination to whom a piece of information was addressed, is found to be compromised in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Our paper investigated the relationship between destination memory and theory of mind in AD since both destination memory and theory of mind are social abilities that require processing attributes of interlocutors. Mild AD participants and controls were administered tasks tapping destination memory, affective theory of mind, and 1st and 2nd order cognitive theory of mind.