New Directions in Psychiatry by Unknown

New Directions in Psychiatry by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030426378
Publisher: Springer International Publishing


7.4 Assessment and Evaluation

Agitation is not uniformly defined. For instance, the Agitation Definition Working Group (ADWG) of the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) identified several features of agitation in persons with cognitive disorders and evaluated those that were recognized by at least 50% of respondents, which were then established as the core features in agitation (Table 7.1).Table 7.1Common behaviours in people with agitation [16]

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Percentage of respondents who thought the item belonged to the definition of agitation



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