Comparison between two tests of delayed recall for the diagnosis of dementia

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Leonel Tadao Takada¹  Paulo Caramelli¹  Helenice Charchat Fichman¹  Cláudia Sellitto Porto¹  Valéria Santoro Bahia¹  Renato Anghinah¹  Maria Teresa Carthery-goulart¹  Márcia Radanovic¹  Jerusa Smid¹  Emílio Herrera Jr.²  Ricardo Nitrini¹ 

[1] ,University of São Paulo School of Medicine Hospital das ClínicasSão Paulo SP ,Brazil

关键词: dementia;    Alzheimer’s disease;    memory;    neuropsychological tests;    educational status;    illiteracy;    demência;    doença de Alzheimer;    testes neuropsicológicos;    analfabetismo;    escolaridade;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-282X2006000100008

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Diagnosis of dementia is a challenge in populations with heterogeneous educational background. OBJECTIVE: To compare the accuracies of two delayed recall tests for the diagnosis of dementia in a community with high proportion of illiterates. METHOD: The delayed recall of a word list from the CERAD battery (DR-CERAD) was compared with the delayed recall of objects presented as line drawings from the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (DR-BCSB) using ROC curves. Illiterate (23 controls and 17 patients with dementia) and literate individuals (28 controls and 17 patients with dementia) were evaluated in a community-dwelling Brazilian population. RESULTS: The DR-BCSB showed higher accuracy than the DR-CERAD in the illiterate (p=0.029), similar accuracy in the literate individuals (p=0.527), and a trend for higher accuracy in the entire population (p=0.084). CONCLUSION: the DR-BCSB could be an alternative for the diagnosis of dementia in populations with high proportion of illiterates.

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