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Quality of Life Ratings and Proxy Bias in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Two Sides to the Story?

Quality of Life Ratings and Proxy Bias in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Two Sides to the Story? A valid measure of quality of life is important for clinical goal setting and for evaluating interventions. In the amnestic dementias, proxy-raters (e.g. friends, families, clinicians) typically rate quality of life lower than the self-ratings given by the person with dementia – a proxy bias. This study investigated whether the same proxy bias occurs in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a language-led dementia.Quality of life was measured in 18 individuals with PPA using self-ratings, and proxy-ratings by their main communication partner, using the Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease Scale.There was no strong evidence for proxy bias at a group level, with no consistent pattern across dyads, where proxy- and self-ratings did not show good levels of agreement. We suggest that self-ratings and proxy-ratings of quality of life in PPA are not interchangeable. Higher-powered investigation of the patterns observed here is warranted in future studies. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Alzheimer s Disease & Other Dementias® SAGE

Quality of Life Ratings and Proxy Bias in Primary Progressive Aphasia: Two Sides to the Story?

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2023
ISSN
1533-3175
eISSN
1938-2731
DOI
10.1177/15333175231177668
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Abstract

A valid measure of quality of life is important for clinical goal setting and for evaluating interventions. In the amnestic dementias, proxy-raters (e.g. friends, families, clinicians) typically rate quality of life lower than the self-ratings given by the person with dementia – a proxy bias. This study investigated whether the same proxy bias occurs in Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a language-led dementia.Quality of life was measured in 18 individuals with PPA using self-ratings, and proxy-ratings by their main communication partner, using the Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease Scale.There was no strong evidence for proxy bias at a group level, with no consistent pattern across dyads, where proxy- and self-ratings did not show good levels of agreement. We suggest that self-ratings and proxy-ratings of quality of life in PPA are not interchangeable. Higher-powered investigation of the patterns observed here is warranted in future studies.

Journal

American Journal of Alzheimer s Disease & Other Dementias®SAGE

Published: May 15, 2023

Keywords: dementia; aphasia; primary progressive aphasia; wellbeing; quality of life; proxy; ratings

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