Validity of the Korean Version of the Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale for the Assessment of Anticipatory Dementia
- Title
- Validity of the Korean Version of the Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale for the Assessment of Anticipatory Dementia
- Author
- 김희진
- Keywords
- Alzheimer Disease; Anticipatory Dementia; Scale; Anxiety; Cognitive Impairment; Korea
- Issue Date
- 2014-03
- Publisher
- KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES, 302 75 DONG DU ICHON, DONG YONGSAN KU, SEOUL 140 031, SOUTH KOREA
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE,권: 29,호: 3,페이지: 411-415
- Abstract
- Anticipatory dementia is related to anxiety, which is a clinical predictor of early conversion to Alzheimer's disease. The Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale (FADS) is a reliable and valid instrument to address anticipatory dementia. The aim of the present investigation was to develop the Korean version of the Fear of Alzheimer's Disease Scale (K-FADS) and to verify its reliability and validity. We developed the K-FADS to consist of 30 items with total scores ranging from 0 to 120, as in the original FADS. One hundred eight healthy volunteer participants, drawn from 3 different university hospitals, were evaluated. The K-FADS revealed good reliability (Cronbach alpha = 0.96) and good validity as compared to the Korean version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form (r = 0.242, P = 0.013). Test-retest reliability was excellent, as the intra-class correlation coefficient comparing the retest to test was 0.98 (95% confidence interval, 0.96-0.99). Our results show that the K-FADS is a suitable and valuable scale to assess anticipatory dementia in elderly Koreans.
- URI
- https://synapse.koreamed.org/DOIx.php?id=10.3346/jkms.2014.29.3.411http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/51458
- ISSN
- 1011-8934; 1598-6357
- DOI
- 10.3346/jkms.2014.29.3.411
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