التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Neuropsychological Profile and Dementia Symptom Recognition in Help-Seekers in a Community Early-Detection Program in Hong Kong. |
| المؤلفون: |
Tang, Jennifer Y.‐M., Wong, Gloria H.‐Y., Ng, Carmen K.‐M., Kwok, Dorothy T.‐S., Lee, Maggie N.‐Y., Dai, David L.‐K., Lum, Terry Y.‐S. |
| المصدر: |
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; Mar2016, Vol. 64 Issue 3, p584-589, 6p, 3 Charts |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
DEMENTIA patients, ALZHEIMER'S disease, HELP-seeking behavior, EARLY diagnosis, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS of dementia, ELDER care, GERIATRIC assessment, CHINESE people, COGNITION in old age, COMMUNITY health services, CONFIDENCE intervals, DEMENTIA, MENTAL depression, INTERVIEWING, LIFE skills, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests, RESEARCH methodology, MEMORY, PROBABILITY theory, SCALE analysis (Psychology), T-test (Statistics), COMORBIDITY, ACTIVITIES of daily living, MULTIPLE regression analysis, PSYCHOSOCIAL factors, SOCIOECONOMIC factors, INDEPENDENT living, CROSS-sectional method, GERIATRIC Depression Scale, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, TREATMENT delay (Medicine), BARTHEL Index, SYMPTOMS, OLD age |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
HONG Kong (China) |
| مستخلص: |
Objectives To examine the neuropsychological and clinical profile of help-seekers in an early-detection community dementia program and to explore any relationship between profiles and time to seek help. Design Cross-sectional. Setting Early-detection community dementia program. Participants Help-seekers (N = 1,005) with subjective cognitive complaints or complaints from an informant. Measurements Neurocognitive testing, including the Cantonese Mini-Mental State Examination ( MMSE), Clock Drawing Test, Digit Span, and Fuld Object Memory Evaluation and other clinical and functioning assessments, including the Clinical Dementia Rating ( CDR), activities of daily living ( ADLs), instrumental ADLs ( IADLs), and depressive symptoms. Time since the person or an informant reported that they first noticed symptoms. Results Eighty-six percent of help-seekers had at least very mild dementia ( CDR score ≥0.5). Cognitive performance was moderately impaired (mean MMSE score 18.4 ± 6.1). They required some assistance with IADLs, had very mild ADL impairments, and had few depressive symptoms. Median time to seek assessment was 12 months (interquartile range 7-30 months) according to the person or the informant (an adult child in 75% of the sample). Using the median-split method, time to seek assessment was classified as early (0-12 months) and late (>12 months). Worse cognitive and IADL performance but not ADL performance or depressive symptoms were observed in late than in early help-seekers. Longer time intervals between symptom recognition and early assessment showed a trend of further impairments on all measures except ADLs. Conclusion A time interval of more than 12 months between symptom recognition and early assessment appears to be associated with worse cognitive function upon presentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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