Table 1 Available instruments for assessment of apathy
NO | Authors | Scale Title | Item Number | Domain | Target group | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Overall and Gorham(1962) [18] | Brief Psychiatric Rating scale | 5 | Â | Paranoid, Schizophrenic and Depressive | Sub-scale |
2 | Kay et al.(1989) [19] | Positive and Negative Symptoms scale | 8 | Â | schizophrenia | Sub-scale |
3 | Andreasen(1989) [20] | Assessment of Negative Symptoms | 8 | Â | schizophrenia | Sub-scale |
4 | Burns etal(1990) [21] | Apathy | 5 | Single factor | Huntington and Alzheimer disease | full |
5 | Marin etal(1991) [22] | Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) | 18 | 3 | Well elderly, Left hemisphere stroke, Right hemisphere stroke, Probable Alzheimer’s disease and Major depression | full |
6 | Cummings et al.(1994) [23] | Neuropsychiatric Inventory | 9 | Â | dementia patients | Sub-scale |
7 | Starkstein et al.(1995) [24] | Apathy Scale | 14 | Single factor | Alzheimer’s disease | full |
8 | Grace et al.(1999) [25] | Frontal Systems Behaviour scale | 27 | Â | frontal lobe brain-damaged patients | Sub-scale |
9 | Strauss and Sperry(2002) [26] | Dementia Apathy Interview and Rating | 16 | Â | Alzheimer Disease | Sub-scale |
10 | Norris and Tate(2002) [27] | The Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome- DEX | 20 | Â | All groups | Sub-scale |
11 | Robert et al.(2002) [28] | Apathy Inventory | 3 | Emotional blunting, Lack of initiative and Lack of interest | Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and mild cognitive impairment (caregiver and patient) | Full |
12 | Belanger et al.(2002) [29] | Key Behavior Change Inventory | 28 | Â | Elderly with memory disorder | Sub-scale |
13 | Sockeel etal(2006) [30] | The Lille apathy rating scale (LARS) | 33 | reduction in everyday productivity; lack of interest; lack of initiative; extinction of novelty seeking and motivation; blunting of emotional responses; lack of concern; poor social life and extinction of self-awareness | Parkinson’s disease | full |
14 | Radakovic & Abrahams (2014) [31] | Dimensional Apathy scale (DAS) | 24 | Executive, Emotional and Behavioral/Cognitive Initiation | neurodegenerative disease and motor dysfunction such as Parkinson’s disease | full |
15 | Ang etal(2017) [32] | Apathy Motivation Index | 18 | behavioral, social and emotional | All groups | full |