What is it about?
Very few validated instruments for anxiety screening in patients with dementia exist that include assessment of the patient's own experience. Norwegian version of the Rating Anxiety in Dementia (RAID-N) scale has demonstrated good validity and inter-rater reliability, and could be a useful tool to identify clinical significant anxiety in patients with dementia in Norwegian nursing homes.
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Why is it important?
Anxiety and anxiety symptoms are highly prevalent among patients with dementia with many negative impacts. RAID-N could be helpful for the health professionals to initiate appropriate interventions to manage and treat anxiety in patients with dementia.
Perspectives
It is difficult to diagnose anxiety in patients with dementia due to overlapping of symptoms with dementia and depression. In clinical practice, there is a tendency to consider anxiety symptoms and anxiety disorders as part of the dementia. Thereby, anxiety as a diagnosis in need of treatment often goes unnoticed in these patients. I hope that the RAID-N could be a useful tool in cross-cultural studies of anxiety in patients with dementia.
Ms Alka AG Goyal
Universitetet i Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Norwegian version of the rating anxiety in dementia scale (RAID-N): a validity and reliability study, Aging & Mental Health, September 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2016.1220921.
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