The aim of this instrumental study was to establish the psychometric properties of the screening test for dementia Pesotest in clinical and non-clinical samples of elderly people. The participants of this study were 213 elderly people over 65 years old. The instruments used were the Pesotest, the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Sociodemographic Survey and the Geriatric Depression Scale Yesavage (GDS). A Cronbach’s alpha of 0.86 for internal consistency of the Pesotest was found. The MMSE was used to establish convergent validity, finding a significant correlation of 0.596. Statistically significant differences were also found between the clinical and nonclinical samples. The factor analysis yielded four factors and using the ROC c...
The growth of the elderly population in Brazil occurs at an accelerated rate, resulting in the need ...
Abstract: Mental disability referred to here as Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD), according...
objective: Description and discussion of the main psychological and psychodynamic aspects of obese c...
Tese de Doutoramento no âmbito do Programa Doutoral Interuniversitário em Envelhecimento e Doenças C...
BACKGROUND: The increase in life expectancy and proportion of elderly in the population is causing a...
This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the ass...
Executive function is the construct that comprises the spectrum of cognitive abilities that enable t...
Purpose: to describe a series of cases of older people with a clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive i...
Background: The profile of a frail patient corresponds to an elderly person, with multimorbidity, an...
This article aimed to check the association between clinical and epidemiological predictors of sick ...
Objetivos: Elaborar un banco de datos de los ancianos asistidos en el Núcleo de Atenção ao Idoso – N...
Introduction: Aging is spreading in the worldwide. How old are the people, it will have more chance ...
A espontaneidade e as suas ligações à saúde mental e ao bem-estar são uma componente central quer na...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of socioeconomic conditions on the association between common m...
In Latin America, the study of dementia with endogenously validated scales is a challenge, being rec...
The growth of the elderly population in Brazil occurs at an accelerated rate, resulting in the need ...
Abstract: Mental disability referred to here as Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD), according...
objective: Description and discussion of the main psychological and psychodynamic aspects of obese c...
Tese de Doutoramento no âmbito do Programa Doutoral Interuniversitário em Envelhecimento e Doenças C...
BACKGROUND: The increase in life expectancy and proportion of elderly in the population is causing a...
This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the ass...
Executive function is the construct that comprises the spectrum of cognitive abilities that enable t...
Purpose: to describe a series of cases of older people with a clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive i...
Background: The profile of a frail patient corresponds to an elderly person, with multimorbidity, an...
This article aimed to check the association between clinical and epidemiological predictors of sick ...
Objetivos: Elaborar un banco de datos de los ancianos asistidos en el Núcleo de Atenção ao Idoso – N...
Introduction: Aging is spreading in the worldwide. How old are the people, it will have more chance ...
A espontaneidade e as suas ligações à saúde mental e ao bem-estar são uma componente central quer na...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of socioeconomic conditions on the association between common m...
In Latin America, the study of dementia with endogenously validated scales is a challenge, being rec...
The growth of the elderly population in Brazil occurs at an accelerated rate, resulting in the need ...
Abstract: Mental disability referred to here as Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD), according...
objective: Description and discussion of the main psychological and psychodynamic aspects of obese c...