Nursing Home Dementia Symptoms and Medication Use During COVID-19

Table 1_Behavioral symptoms of dementia and psychotropic use during the COVID-19 pandemic.docx is a dataset by Jung Min Yoon on figshare. It contains results from a repeated cross-sectional study using the 2019 and 2020 Minimum Data Set from nursing homes in New York, Utah, and Colorado. The data measures changes in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and psychotropic medication use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in composite BPSD prevalence based on the measure of two or more symptoms among depression, wandering, rejection of care, hallucinations, delusions, or verbal/physical behavioral symptoms.
• Investigate changes in neuropsychiatric sub-syndromes, such as depressive, psychosis-related, and agitation-related symptoms, over time.
• Study patterns of psychotropic medication use, including antipsychotics, sedatives, antidepressants, and antianxiety drugs, in nursing home populations.
• Model the relationship between public health emergencies and mental health outcomes for residents with dementia.

Strengths

• Provides specific prevalence percentages with confidence intervals for key outcomes, such as the increase in composite BPSD from 19.0% to 20.2%.
• Focuses on a defined geographic scope (nursing homes in New York, Utah, and Colorado) and time period (2019-2020).
• Uses a standardized data source (Minimum Data Set) for nursing home assessments.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (17.4 KB), indicating limited scope, likely containing summary results rather than raw patient-level data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Jung Min Yoon.

Collection Method

Repeated cross-sectional study using the Minimum Data Set.

Time Range

2019 and 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 05:47:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Nursing homes in New York, Utah, and Colorado.