Presence and Characteristics of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Subacute Stroke Patients with Cognitive Impairment

Table 2

Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Questionnaire scores of subacute stroke patients with cognitive impairment.

Items	Severity		Distress
	Number of patients according to score [0, 1, 2, 3]	Presence (% of )	Number of patients according to score [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]	Presence (% of )
Delusions	[59, 13, 6, 3]	27.2	[61, 10, 5, 3, 2, 0]	24.7
Hallucinations	[74, 5, 0, 2]	8.6	[75, 5, 0, 0, 1, 0]	7.4
Agitation	[62, 14, 3, 2]	23.5	[59, 13, 4, 3, 1, 1]	27.2
Depression	[48, 27, 5, 1]	40.7	[49, 23, 6, 1, 2, 0]	39.5
Anxiety	[50, 25, 5, 1]	38.3	[53, 20, 8, 0, 0, 0]	34.6
Euphoria	[70, 7, 4, 0]	13.6	[70, 8, 3, 0, 0, 0]	13.6
Apathy	[44, 23, 9, 5]	45.7	[47, 25, 7, 1, 1, 0]	42.0
Disinhibition	[68, 9, 4, 0]	16.0	[69, 8, 2, 1, 0, 1]	14.8
Irritability	[69, 9, 2, 1]	14.8	[69, 8, 0, 2, 0, 2]	14.8
Aberrant motor behavior	[72, 7, 1, 1]	11.1	[72, 6, 1, 1, 0, 1]	11.1
Total score
Mean (SD)	3.3 (3.9)	69.1	3.5 (5.2)	74.1
Median (IQR)	2 (0–5)		2 (0–4)

Values are presented as number, percentage, mean (SD), or median (IQR). IQR: interquartile range; SD: standard deviation. Total scores of Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Questionnaire range 0 to 30 and 0 to 50 in severity and distress, respectively, with higher scores indicating severer symptom.