OBJECTIVE The Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) is one of the most commonly used assessment scales for assessing symptoms in people with dementia and other neurological disorders. This paper analyzes its conceptual framework, measurement mode, psychometric properties, and merits and problems. METHOD All articles discussing the psychometric properties and factor structure of the NPI were search...

Narcissism is typically viewed as a dimensional construct in social psychology. Direct evidence supporting this position is lacking, however, and recent research suggests that clinical measures of narcissism exhibit categorical properties. It is therefore unclear whether social psychological researchers should conceptualize narcissism as a category or continuum. To help remedy this, the latent ...

BACKGROUND The objective was to examine various aspects of narcissism in patients admitted to acute psychiatric wards and to compare their level of narcissism to that of an age- and gender-matched sample from the general population (NORM). METHODS This cross-sectional study interviewed 186 eligible acute psychiatric patients with the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Global Assess...

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) is the primary measure of grandiose narcissism (GN) despite possessing numerous limitations. Here we present a new 33-item measure of GN called the Grandiose Narcissism Scale (GNS) that exhibits a reproducible seven-factor structure that maps on to Raskin and Terry’s (1988) seven factor model. GNS subscales exhibit high reliability, with several bein...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) greatly increase caregiver burden. The abilities of donepezil and memantine to manage BPSD within their licensed indications in AD were compared. METHODS A systematic review, random effects meta-analysis and Bucher indirect comparison were conducted. RESULTS Six randomised controlled studie...

Background Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are a prevalent feature in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Studies have consistently observed that certain NPS tendency to co-occur others. One major focus of research has been understand the factor structure Inventory (NPI) identify neuropsychiatric syndromes AD. Whilst there is large literature studies, exists heterogeneity results derived. M...

BACKGROUND Following traumatic brain injury (TBI), individuals may experience chronic problems with irritability or aggression, which may need treatment to minimize the negative impact on their relationships, home life, social interactions, community participation, and employment OBJECTIVE : To test the a priori hypothesis that amantadine reduces irritability (primary hypothesis) and aggressi...

Purpose: Patients with AD commonly exhibit behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). This study is aimed to compare the efficacy of yokukansan (YKS) and risperidone (RIS) on BPSD in patients with severe Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Methods: Thirty-eight inpatients with AD were investigated. Patients were randomly assigned to the YKS group (N = 18) or the RIS group (N = 20) and trea...

purpose: the aim of present study was to examining the psychometric properties of the iranian version of short dark triad (sd3) in students. methodology: the study sample consisted of bu-ali sina university students in 2015-2016. 376 students were selected based on multi-stage cluster sampling. to study psychometric characteristics of the scale, dark triad scale was translated with double-trans...