Table 1 Measurements instruments used in the PACO study
Variable | Instrument/source | Type of variable |
|---|---|---|
Demographic variables | Single items | Control variables |
Diagnosis variables | NINCDS ADRDA | Control variables |
CDR | ||
Psychotropic medications | Single items | Control variables |
Personality type | NEO PI R | Influencing factor |
Personality trouble | SCID 2 | Influencing factor |
Life events | Clément questionnaire and French Life events Inventory | Influencing factor |
Depression | GDS (current depression) | Influencing factor |
MINI (history of depression) | ||
Neuropsychological tests | Assessment of memory, attention, executive functions, language, praxis and global cognitive functions. | Influencing factor |
Social cognition tests | facial emotional expression; | Influencing factor |
recognition of the facial gender; | Secondary outcome variable | |
recognition of the facial gender; | ||
Theory of Mind tests; | ||
Neuroimaging measures | MRI Atrophy measurement | Influencing factor |
Secondary outcome variable | ||
Neuropsychiatric symptoms | Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI-Q) | Primary outcome measure |
Neuropsychiatric symptoms | Apathy Inventory | Primary outcome measure |