A New Behavioural Assessment Tool for Patients with Major Neurocognitve Disorders: Results of a Clinical Study

120 residents with dementia in long term care facilities were recruited for the study. Pittsburg Agitation Scale was used to screen for the presence of BPSD. 60 patients were in the control group and 60 patients in the study group. Construct and criteria validity was established by comparing LuBAIR to BEHAVE-AD and Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory. Intraand inter-rater reliability of LuBAIR was also established. A Clinical Utility Survey (CUS) survey was developed for the study to determine the usefulness of LuBAIR on three variables: less labor intensive, more comprehensive and better categorization of behaviors in clinical meaningful categories. Intra-rater reliability was established for 8 of 12 and inter-rater reliability for 10 of 12 behavioral categories. LuBAIR had comparable Construct and Criteria Validity. CUS findings showed 23% of nurses found LuBAIR less labor intensive, 77% found it more comprehensive and 98% agreed LuBAIR helps understand behaviors in clinically meaningful ways. *Corresponding author: Atul Sunny Luthra, Homewood Health Centre, Canada, Tel: 2265001893; E-mail: [email protected] Received October 12, 2015; Accepted December 21, 2015; Published December 28, 2015 Citation: Luthra AS (2015) A New Behavioural Assessment Tool for Patients with Major Neurocognitve Disorders: Results of a Clinical Study. J Gerontol Geriatr Res 4: 260. doi:10.4172/2167-7182.1000260 Copyright: © 2015 Luthra AS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.