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The Present Behavioural Examination (PBE): the development of an interview to measure current behavioural
1University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford.
Psychological Medicine
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
Behavioural problems are an important feature of dementia and other neuropsychiatric conditions. This paper describes the development and performance of an investigator-based interview (the PBE) for the detailed assessment of the behaviour of subjects over the preceding four weeks. The interview is designed to be administered to carers. A test-retest reliability study was carried out on the penultimate edition of this interview; and the inter-rater reliability of the final edition was measured. These studies show that the reliability of the PBE is comparable with that of other investigator-based interviews.