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1、OptionsforEvaluatingTreatmentBenefitinMCIandProdromalAlzheimer’sDis…OptionsforEvaluatingTreatmentBenefitinMCIandProdromalAlzheimer’sDisease:ContentValidityofthePerceivedDeficitsQuestionnaire(PDQ)inPatientsptomsofCognitiveDecline*arketAccess,JanssenAlzheimerImmunot
2、herapy,Loail:#.lenderkingevidera.Received8October2013;revised23December2013;accepted1January2014Copyright©2014byauthorsandScientificResearchPublishingInc.ThisonsAttributionInternationalLicense(CCBY).creativemons.org/licenses/by/4.0/AbstractBackground:Manyinst
3、rumentsusedtoassessoutesoftreatmentforAlzheimer’sdisease(AD)havenopublishedevidenceoftheirrelevanceandcontentvalidityinearlierstagesofthedisease,i.e.,mildcognitiveimpairment,orprodromalAD(pAD).Theobjectiveofthisprojecteasureinthispopulationusingqualitativemethodol
4、ogytosupportcontentvalidity.Method:Tentonstratedinthepatientintervieodificationstothesodifications,thePDQhasimprovedcontentvalidityandrelevance.Itisthereforeapotentiallyusefuloutemeasuretoevaluatetherapeuticbenefitininterventionalstudiesofpatientsintheearlystageso
5、fAD.KeyalAD;ContentValidity;PerceivedDeficitsQuestionnaire*PointofContactforPermissionstoUseRevisedPDQ:MichaelSullivan,PhD.DepartmentsofPsychology,MedicineandNeurology,CanadaResearchChairinBehaviouralHealth,McGillUniversity,1205DocteurPenfield,Montreal(Quebec),H3A
6、1B1.#Correspondingauthor.CI)andprodromalAlzheimer’sdisease(pAD)isincreasinglyrecognized.Hoentser’sdiseasecontinuumissofarlimited[1].Furthermore,thereisongoingdebateabouthopairmentostlikelytoprogresstoAD,andvariousterms,suchasMCIduetoAD[2],amnesticMCI[3],andprodrom
7、alAD[4],haveallbeenproposed,allple,Albertetal.[2]proposebothclinicalcriteriaandresearchcriteriaforMCIduetoAD,thelatterofarkerstoincreasethepredictivevalidityofthediagnosis.ProdromalADisdescribedasanamnesticsyndromeofthehippocampaltypeandcanbeidentifiedclinicallyby
8、1)averypoorfreerecall;and2)adecreasedtotalrecallduetoaninsufficienteffectofcueingentsthatareapplicableacrosscategories.Tounderscorethispoint,Ganguliandc