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Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
INTRODUCTION: Mild cognitive impairment can be considered as an intermediate clinical state between normal cognitive aging and mild dementia. Elderly people with this impairment represent an at-risk group for the development of dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cog...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25436081 |
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author | Rashedi, Vahid Rezaei, Mohammad Gharib, Masoud |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Mild cognitive impairment can be considered as an intermediate clinical state between normal cognitive aging and mild dementia. Elderly people with this impairment represent an at-risk group for the development of dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and its relationship with socio-demographic variables. METHODS: In this analytical-descriptive study, 212 subjects admitted to Hamadan’s day care centers were selected through simple random sampling method. To gather the data, MMSE was used as well as a questionnaire containing demographic variables. Data analysis was completed through SPSS-16. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 17.9% male, 59.4% of whom were married. According to the results, 96 cases (45.3%) suffered from mild (MMSE≥22), 110 cases (51.9%) from moderate (11≤MMSE≤21) and 6 cases (2.8%) from severe cognitive disorder (MMSE≤10). As findings revealed, factors such as age (Pv = 0.005, r = -0.491) and schooling (Pv < 0.001) are of significant relationship with MMSE score. DISCUSSION: Prevalence of cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults was of normal range. Hence, familial relations and social support can decrease mental status disorder. |
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spelling | pubmed-42026052014-12-01 Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Rashedi, Vahid Rezaei, Mohammad Gharib, Masoud Basic Clin Neurosci Research Papers INTRODUCTION: Mild cognitive impairment can be considered as an intermediate clinical state between normal cognitive aging and mild dementia. Elderly people with this impairment represent an at-risk group for the development of dementia. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and its relationship with socio-demographic variables. METHODS: In this analytical-descriptive study, 212 subjects admitted to Hamadan’s day care centers were selected through simple random sampling method. To gather the data, MMSE was used as well as a questionnaire containing demographic variables. Data analysis was completed through SPSS-16. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 17.9% male, 59.4% of whom were married. According to the results, 96 cases (45.3%) suffered from mild (MMSE≥22), 110 cases (51.9%) from moderate (11≤MMSE≤21) and 6 cases (2.8%) from severe cognitive disorder (MMSE≤10). As findings revealed, factors such as age (Pv = 0.005, r = -0.491) and schooling (Pv < 0.001) are of significant relationship with MMSE score. DISCUSSION: Prevalence of cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults was of normal range. Hence, familial relations and social support can decrease mental status disorder. Iranian Neuroscience Society 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4202605/ /pubmed/25436081 Text en Copyright © 2014 Iranian Neuroscience Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Research Papers Rashedi, Vahid Rezaei, Mohammad Gharib, Masoud Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults |
title | Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults |
title_full | Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults |
title_short | Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment in Community-Dwelling Older Adults |
title_sort | prevalence of cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202605/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25436081 |
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