SCREENING ELDERLY PATIENTS FOR COGNITIVE FUNCTION AT A REFERENCE CENTER IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL

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  • Maria de Fátima Carvalhal Martins
  • Rita da Graça Carvalhal Frazão Corrêa
  • Adriano Filipe Barreto Grangeiro
  • Yasmine Pi Lien Wang
  • Ana Karolina Torres Mendes
  • Leonardo Victor Galvão-Moreira
  • Rodrigo de Souza Barcelos Barroqueiro
  • Luciane Maria Oliveira Brito

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Introduction: Both demographic and epidemiologic transitions experienced by the country in the past decades bring a number of crucial issues for the health care system, especially in the context of severe social inequality, poverty and fragility of institutions. Objectives: To identify the cognitive profile of non-institutionalized elderly outpatients seen at a reference center in São Luís, Brazil. Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted in a reference center in São Luís, MA, Brazil. Final sample consisted of 102 individuals. Inclusion criteria were: age equal to or over 60 years at first consultation, and ability to understand and to answer the tests for cognitive assessment. This study utilized 3 validated tests that have been widely used in Brazil, including the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Verbal Fluency Test (VFT) and the Clock Drawing Test (CDT). Results: A total of 102 individuals were included. The majority of patients were women (72%), aged 60-64 years (33.3%), married or living in consensual union (43.1%), and had non-white skin color (52.9%). The prevalence of cognitive impairment was 60.7% for the Minimental state examination, 23.5% for the Verbal Fluency Test and 59.8 % for the Clock Drawing Test. Regarding the presence of cognitive impairment in at least one test, a total of 83.3% was observed. There was an association between the occurrence of cognitive impairment with both marital status and self-perception of health status (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Hence, in the present study, the occurrence of cognitive impairment was considered high and might be associated with marital and health status.

Keywords: Health of the Elderly. Aging. Cognition.

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Biografia do Autor

Maria de Fátima Carvalhal Martins

Post-Graduate Program in Adult Health, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

Rita da Graça Carvalhal Frazão Corrêa

Post-Graduate Program in Nursing, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

Adriano Filipe Barreto Grangeiro

Federal University of Tocantins, Palmas, Brazil

Yasmine Pi Lien Wang

School of Medicine, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

Ana Karolina Torres Mendes

School of Medicine, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

Leonardo Victor Galvão-Moreira

School of Medicine, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

Rodrigo de Souza Barcelos Barroqueiro

Department of Morphology, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

Luciane Maria Oliveira Brito

Post-Graduate Program in Adult Health, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil

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2020-01-27

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Martins, M. de F. C., Corrêa, R. da G. C. F., Grangeiro, A. F. B., Wang, Y. P. L., Mendes, A. K. T., Galvão-Moreira, L. V., Barroqueiro, R. de S. B., & Brito, L. M. O. (2020). SCREENING ELDERLY PATIENTS FOR COGNITIVE FUNCTION AT A REFERENCE CENTER IN NORTHEAST BRAZIL. Revista De Pesquisa Em Saúde, 19(3). Recuperado de https://cajapio.ufma.br/index.php/revistahuufma/article/view/13160

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