Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Applicability of a cognitive questionnaire in the elderly and proxy |
| Authors: |
Fegyveres, Renata Areza, Formigoni, Ana Paula, Porto, Cláudia Sellitto, Goulart, Maria Teresa Carthery, Senaha, Mirna Lie Hosogi, Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi, Bahia, Valéria Santoro, Caramelli, Paulo, Smid, Jerusa, Nogueira, Neuma D´Ávila Pinto, Greven, Sandra Maria Garaude, Mansur, Letícia Lessa, Nitrini, Ricardo |
| Source: |
Dementia & Neuropsychologia. September 2008 2(3) |
| Publisher Information: |
Academia Brasileira de Neurologia, Departamento de Neurologia Cognitiva e Envelhecimento, 2008. |
| Publication Year: |
2008 |
| Subject Terms: |
evaluation, cognition, aged, cognitive tests, screenings. |
| More Details: |
The Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly with the Proxy (IQCODE) was developed as a screening tool for cognition alterations. Objectives: 1) To verify the applicability of IQCODE in the elderly with limited schooling, 2) To verify the reliability of the responses supplied by the aged and their proxies. Methods: Individuals of a Community Group were evaluated using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), IQCODE and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). The IQCODE was applied to informants and proxies. Results: We analyzed 44 individuals, aged between 58-82 years (M=66.8, SD=5.97) with mean elderly-schooling level of 3.75, SD=2.82 and 44 proxies aged 44.5 (SD=13.3), with mean schooling level of 8.25 (SD=4.3). The mean GDS was 8.22, SD=4.90 and 13 participants presented a score suggestive of depressive symptoms. The mean elderly IQCODE score was 3.26, SD=0.69 and 3.21, SD=0.65, for proxy responses. There was no statistical difference between these means. On the MMSE, the mean score was 24.20, SD=4.14 and 18 participants presented scores below the cut-off. The IQCODE answers by the elderly in this latter group were more congruent with MMSE than the answers of proxies. Conclusions: The applicability of the IQCODE in a population with little schooling was verified in that the proxy-report was similar to the elderly report. We can affirm that the elderly answers were more accurate than the proxies, as they were closer to MMSE score. The inclusion of a greater number of participants from community-dwelling settings is necessary to confirm the results obtained in this study. |
| Document Type: |
article |
| File Description: |
text/html |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
1980-5764 |
| DOI: |
10.1590/S1980-57642009DN20300012 |
| Access URL: |
http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642008000300228 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edssci.S1980.57642008000300228 |
| Database: |
SciELO |
