Publications by authors named "Sheila Richey"

Objectives: Clinical assessment of persons with dementia should include potential causes of behavioral problems, including pain, depression, and caregiver-patient relationship quality. Many validated assessment tools are available; however, a brief screening tool is needed, as administering a battery of instruments is impractical in most clinical settings. We evaluated (a) the construct validity of brief screens for pain, depression, and relationship strain by examining their associations with validated measures and medication use and (b) the predictive validity of each screen and the screens as a set by examining their associations with frequency of disruptive behaviors.

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Objectives: We examined associations among three measures of caregiver experiences (i.e., positive aspects of caring [PAC], caregiver burden, and mutuality) in 228 dyads involving persons with dementia (PWD) and their informal caregivers.

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Objective: International appeals call for interventions to prevent aggression and other behavioral problems in individuals with dementia (IWD). Aggression Prevention Training (APT), based on intervening in three contributors to development of aggression (IWD pain, IWD depression, and caregiver-IWD relationship problems) aims to reduce incidence of aggression in IWD over 1 year.

Design: Randomized, controlled trial.

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Background: People with dementia experience a decline in language skills required to self-report pain; researchers thus recommend the use of nonverbal behaviors to assess pain. Although multiple instruments exist for assessing nonverbal pain behaviors, psychometric data are lacking for African American nursing home residents with dementia.

Aims And Design: The purpose of this methodological study was to describe the development and testing of the Pain Assessment Tool in Cognitively Impaired Elders (PATCIE) in African American and Caucasian nursing home residents with dementia.

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