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Objective To study the reliability and validity of Chinese version of housebound scale in Chinese elderly people in community.Methods The housebound scale was amended and translated according to the Procedure of the European organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group.Include two scales,which is whether is housebound and the reason of housebound.The reliability and validity of Chinese version of housebound scale were tested in a sample of 860 Chinese elderly people in two communities among 127 communities in Tangshan from October 2012 to March 2013.Reliability was evaluated using the splithalf reliability and internal consistency.Validity was assessed by content validity,discriminate validity and construct validity.Results The Cronbach’s α coefficient of the first subscales was 0.743,the split-half reliability was 0.856,the convergent validity ratio was 0.960,and the scale had good discriminate validity (P ＜ 0.01).The Cronbach's αcoefficient of the second subscales was 0.853,the split-half reliability was 0.816,the convergent validity ratio was 0.910.Four factors body and mental factors,environmental factors,psychological and social factors,listening factors were extracted by a factor analysis,which explained 48.37％ of the total variance.The loading value of each items in their respective common factor ranged from 0.42 to 0.82.Conclusion The housebound scale has better reliability and validity,which is available for the evaluation of housebound amnong elderly people.
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Objective To investigate the event-based prospective memory (EBPM) and time-based prospective memory (TBPM) in temporal lobe epilepsy patients,and test the hypothcsis that temporal lobe is involved in the prospective memory network. Methods Sixty-two patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and 30 age- and education level-matched healthy adults were examed with the neuropsychological battery of tests including EBPM and TRPM tasks. Results In comparison with the controls,the TLE patients were impaired on MMSE,DS and VFT.Compared with the healthy adults ( EBPM:6.83± 1.34,TBPM:5.00 ± 1.70),the patients with temporal lobe epilepsy had a significant loss in EBPM (3.95 ±2.77,t =6.72,P ＜0.01 ) and TBPM (3.08 ±2.42,t =4.39,P ＜0.01).There was no difference in the performance of EBPM (3.82 ± 2.70,4.10 ± 2.90 ; t =- 0.40,P ＞ 0.05 ) and TBPM (2.55 ± 2.20,3.69± 2.55; t =-1.90,P ＞0.05 ) between the patients with taking antiepileptic drugs and those without antiepileptic drugs. Conclusions These results suggest that patients with temporal lobe epilepsy may experience general difficulties with prospective memory.It is possible that temporal lobe is involved in the prospective memory network.The passages of TBPM need more self-initiated processes.