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Cerebrovasc Dis ; 2024 Mar 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38508150

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BACKGROUND: Traditionally, non-contrast computed tomography (CT) alone was used in the initial assessment of acute ischaemic stroke patients mainly to exclude haemorrhage or alternative pathology. SUMMARY: Late-window (beyond 6 hours) and recent large-volume endovascular mechanical thrombectomy (MT) trials integrated CT Perfusion (CTP) imaging to guide MT and/or intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) decision-making in stroke patients. KEY MESSAGES: In current clinical practice, many patients are being excluded from reperfusion therapy due to a lack of data from urgent investigations to assess cerebral vasculature and perfusion. Here, we explore the potential benefits of CTP incorporated into the initial CT protocol assessment of stroke patients.

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Eur Heart J ; 43(26): 2442-2460, 2022 07 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35552401

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The management of patients with stroke is often multidisciplinary, involving various specialties and healthcare professionals. Given the common shared risk factors for stroke and cardiovascular disease, input may also be required from the cardiovascular teams, as well as patient caregivers and next-of-kin. Ultimately, the patient is central to all this, requiring a coordinated and uniform approach to the priorities of post-stroke management, which can be consistently implemented by different multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, as part of the patient 'journey' or 'patient pathway,' supported by appropriate education and tele-medicine approaches. All these aspects would ultimately aid delivery of care and improve patient (and caregiver) engagement and empowerment. Given the need to address the multidisciplinary approach to holistic or integrated care of patients with heart disease and stroke, the European Society of Cardiology Council on Stroke convened a Task Force, with the remit to propose a consensus on Integrated care management for optimizing the management of stroke and associated heart disease. The present position paper summarizes the available evidence and proposes consensus statements that may help to define evidence gaps and simple practical approaches to assist in everyday clinical practice. A post-stroke ABC pathway is proposed, as a more holistic approach to integrated stroke care, would include three pillars of management: A: Appropriate Antithrombotic therapy.B: Better functional and psychological status.C: Cardiovascular risk factors and Comorbidity optimization (including lifestyle changes).


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Fibrilação Atrial , Cardiologia , Prestação Integrada de Cuidados de Saúde , Cardiopatias , Acidente Vascular Cerebral , Fibrilação Atrial/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Acidente Vascular Cerebral/terapia
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Aust J Rural Health ; 22(6): 328-33, 2014 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25495628

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OBJECTIVE: To rationalise oxygen procedures in adult medical and surgical inpatients with a view to improving patient safety. DESIGN: Prospective pre- and post-intervention audit. SETTING: Manning Hospital, a rural referral hospital in Taree NSW. PARTICIPANTS: Pre-intervention: 82 patients aged 72.7 ± 14.7 years. Post-intervention: 77 patients aged 73.6 ± 12.4 years. INTERVENTION: A multicomponent intervention composed of implementation of a local hospital oxygen policy, introduction of a specific oxygen prescription chart and targeted staff education. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Satisfactory oxygen prescription, monitoring and titration. RESULTS: Only 2/82 (2.4%) patients had satisfactory oxygen prescription specifying target saturation, device and initial flow rate before the intervention compared with 26/77 (34%) patients post-intervention (χ(2) = 56.88, df = 5, P < 0.0001). Percentage of patients with conditions predisposing to hypercapnic respiratory failure who were overtreated with oxygen dropped from 9/19 (47%) to 4/22 (18%) following the study intervention (χ(2) = 4.011, df = 1, P = 0.04). Oxygen therapy monitoring was satisfactory during the audit period, but oxygen titration was unsatisfactory and did not significantly improve following the intervention. CONCLUSIONS: A multicomponent intervention can achieve a significantly increased rate of satisfactory oxygen prescriptions specifying target saturation, including in those who are at risk of hypercapnic respiratory failure.


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Hospitais Rurais , Oxigenoterapia , Segurança do Paciente , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , New South Wales , Política Organizacional , Oxigenoterapia/métodos , Oxigenoterapia/normas , Prescrições/normas , Melhoria de Qualidade
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Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord ; 34(2): 128-34, 2012.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23006935

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BACKGROUND/AIMS: An item response theory (IRT)-based scoring approach to the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) can account for the pattern of scores across the CDR items (domains) and their differential abilities to indicate dementia severity. In doing so, an IRT-based approach can provide greater precision than other CDR scoring algorithms. However, neither a good set of item parameters nor an easily digestible set of instructions needed to implement this approach is readily available. METHODS: Participants were 1,326 patients at the Baylor College of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Clinic. RESULTS: The item parameters necessary for an IRT-based scoring approach were identified (a parameters ranged from 3.01 to 6.22; b parameters ranged from -2.46 to 2.07). CONCLUSION: This study provides, and demonstrates how to easily apply, IRT-based item parameters for the CDR


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Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Demência/diagnóstico , Testes Neuropsicológicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Algoritmos , Doença de Alzheimer/classificação , Demência/classificação , Análise Fatorial , Feminino , Humanos , Funções Verossimilhança , Masculino
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J Atten Disord ; 26(11): 1483-1491, 2022 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35255743

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OBJECTIVE: Continuous performance tests are widely used to aid diagnostic decision making and measure symptom reduction in adult ADHD clinical populations. The diagnostic accuracy of the Quantified Behavior Test plus (QbTest+), developed to identify ADHD populations as an objective measure of ADHD symptoms, was explored. METHODS: The utility of the QbTest+ was investigated in a clinical cohort of 69 adult patients referred to a specialist ADHD clinic in the UK. RESULTS: Scores from the QbTest+ failed to differentiate between patients diagnosed with ADHD and those who did not receive a diagnosis after full clinical assessment. CONCLUSIONS: Based on our findings, we recommend clinicians are cautious when interpreting results of the QbTest+ in clinical populations. This study highlights the need for investigation into the lack of validation of commonly used objective measures in ADHD populations.


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Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade , Adulto , Atenção , Transtorno do Deficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade/diagnóstico , Escala de Avaliação Comportamental , Humanos
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Future Healthc J ; 9(2): 118-124, 2022 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35928186

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The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) process is designed to improve the care of patients in the NHS in England through in-depth review of services, benchmarking and presenting a data-driven evidence base to support change. It started as a pilot project targeting unwarranted variation in elective orthopaedic surgery. It rapidly became apparent that the approach of clinically-led deep dives to review the activity in individual orthopaedic units was effective in improving standards of care but also resulted in substantial cost savings that could be reinvested in the clinical service. GIRFT has now expanded to encompass 40 clinical specialties and is funded by NHS England. We describe the ethos of networks and give examples of GIRFT specialty programmes that have made networks a key component of their recommendations.

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Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord ; 32(5): 362-6, 2011.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22311305

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BACKGROUND/AIMS: To investigate whether an item response theory (IRT) approach to measuring variations of dementia severity within Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) stages is associated with activities of daily living (ADLs). METHODS: IRT estimates of dementia severity within CDR stages in 1,181 patients were correlated with ADLs and analyzed. RESULTS: IRT-determined dementia severity was significantly correlated with ADLs in three of four impaired dementia stages. CONCLUSION: An IRT approach shows considerable advantages over traditional scoring practices of the CDR not only because it increases precision in dementia measurement, but also because it enables one to discover more precise associations with functional outcomes such as ADLs.


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Atividades Cotidianas/classificação , Atividades Cotidianas/psicologia , Doença de Alzheimer/classificação , Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Entrevista Psicológica , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Passatempos , Humanos , Julgamento , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Orientação , Resolução de Problemas , Psicometria , Ajustamento Social
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Arch Clin Neuropsychol ; 36(1): 135-144, 2021 Jan 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32722804

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OBJECTIVE: The Texas Functional Living Scale (TFLS) is a performance-based measure of functional abilities assessing the domains of time, money and calculation, communication, and memory. It is likely that certain items are more sensitive at different levels of functional impairment, with some signaling milder degrees of functional difficulty. This study analyzed psychometric characteristics of individual TFLS items using item response theory (IRT) in an outpatient clinical sample. METHOD: In total, 270 adult outpatients completed the TFLS during clinical neuropsychological evaluation. IRT analysis using 2PL and graded response model was applied to the TFLS. RESULTS: Item parameters, item characteristic curves, and information curves were produced. Item difficulty (a) parameters ranged from 1.05 to 2.23, and item discrimination (b) parameters ranged from -4.11 to 0.51. CONCLUSIONS: TFLS items were differentially sensitive along the continuum of functional impairment. Items that were most sensitive to milder degrees of functional impairment involved clock drawing, microwave programming, financial calculation, and prospective memory. Other items that were optimally precise in more severe degrees of functional impairment involved interacting with a calendar and a relatively simple financial calculation task. These findings suggest that the ability to pass at least some of the items on the TFLS may not necessarily reflect fully intact functional abilities. Certain TFLS items may be able to detect the presence of subtle functional difficulties.


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Atividades Cotidianas , Memória , Adulto , Humanos , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Psicometria , Texas
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Nurs Manag (Harrow) ; 17(7): 37, 2010 Oct 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27753392

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AFTER GRADUATING as a registered mental health nurse from Nottingham University in 1998, I started as a staff nurse at Bradford Community Trust, working in acute services and the newly developing home treatment and crisis teams.

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JMIR Form Res ; 4(12): e24430, 2020 Dec 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33108312

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BACKGROUND: The psychological effects of the COVID-19 government-imposed lockdown have been studied in several populations. These effects however have not been studied in adult populations with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). OBJECTIVE: We wanted to investigate the psychological effects of the COVID-19 imposed lockdown on an adult population with ADHD. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey by administering the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale-7, Brief Adjustment Scale-6, Perceived Stress Scale, and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support to a pragmatic sample of adults with ADHD. RESULTS: In total, 24 individuals (male: n=18, 75%; female: n=6, 25%; age: mean 21.75 years, SD 1.85 years) were included in this study. The adults with ADHD we surveyed had significant levels of emotional distress during the COVID-19 pandemic period. However, there was no evidence of significant deterioration to the mental health of our sample during the COVID-19 pandemic. CONCLUSIONS: When treatment for ADHD is maintained, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of adults with ADHD are mild. Targeted psychological interventions may be useful in such circumstances.

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J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci ; 75(9): 1894-1904, 2020 10 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30877750

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OBJECTIVES: Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are common among individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). We sought to characterize which NPS more purely relate to cognitive dysfunction in DAT, relative to other NPS. METHOD: Demographic, neurocognitive, neuroimaging, and NPS data were mined from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database (n = 906). Using factor analysis, we analyzed the degree to which individual NPS were associated with DAT-associated cognitive dysfunction. We also employed item response theory to graphically depict the ability of individual NPS to index DAT-associated cognitive dysfunction across a continuum ranging from cognitively normal to mild DAT. RESULTS: Psychotic symptoms (hallucinations and delusions) were more strongly related to the continuum of DAT-associated cognitive dysfunction than other NPS, with the strength of the relationship peaking at high levels of disease severity. Psychotic symptoms also negatively correlated with brain volume and did not relate to the presence of vision problems. Aberrant motor behavior and apathy had relatively smaller associations with DAT-associated cognitive dysfunction, while other NPS showed minimal associations. DISCUSSION: Psychotic symptoms most strongly indexed DAT-associated cognitive dysfunction, whereas other NPS, such as depression and anxiety, were not as precisely related to the DAT-associated cognitive dysfunction.


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Doença de Alzheimer , Encéfalo , Disfunção Cognitiva , Delusões , Alucinações , Transtornos Neurocognitivos , Neuroimagem , Idoso , Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Doença de Alzheimer/psicologia , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Encéfalo/patologia , Disfunção Cognitiva/diagnóstico , Disfunção Cognitiva/etiologia , Correlação de Dados , Bases de Dados Factuais , Delusões/diagnóstico , Delusões/etiologia , Feminino , Alucinações/diagnóstico , Alucinações/etiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Testes de Estado Mental e Demência , Transtornos Neurocognitivos/diagnóstico , Transtornos Neurocognitivos/psicologia , Neuroimagem/métodos , Neuroimagem/estatística & dados numéricos , Tamanho do Órgão , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica
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J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci ; 75(7): 1372-1381, 2020 08 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31550369

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OBJECTIVES: Research has longitudinally linked dual-task gait dysfunction to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia risk. Our group previously demonstrated that dual-task gait speed assessment distinguished between subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) and MCI in a memory clinic setting, and also found that differences in dual-task gait speed were largely attributable to executive attention processes. This study aimed to reproduce these findings in a larger diverse sample and to extend them by examining whether there were group differences in single- versus dual-task cognitive performance (number of letters correctly sequenced backward). METHOD: Two-hundred fifty-two patients (M age = 66.01 years, SD = 10.46; 119 MCI, 133 SCC) presenting with cognitive complaints in an academic medical setting underwent comprehensive neuropsychological and gait assessment (single- and dual-task conditions). RESULTS: Patients with MCI walked slower and showed greater decrement in cognitive performance than those with SCC during dual-task conditions. Neuropsychological measures of executive attention accounted for significant variance in dual-task gait performance across diagnostic groups beyond demographic and health risk factors. DISCUSSION: Reproduction of our results within a sample over four times the previous size provides support for the use of dual-task gait assessment as a marker of MCI risk in clinical settings.


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Disfunção Cognitiva/diagnóstico , Análise da Marcha/métodos , Idoso , Atenção , Disfunção Cognitiva/fisiopatologia , Função Executiva , Feminino , Marcha , Humanos , Masculino , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Análise e Desempenho de Tarefas , Velocidade de Caminhada
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Appl Neuropsychol Adult ; 27(4): 326-333, 2020.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30646749

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The Texas Functional Living Scale (TFLS) is a performance-based measure of instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). Executive dysfunction has been linked to impairment on other IADL measures but has not been thoroughly investigated with the TFLS. This study examined the contribution of executive functioning to IADLs on the TFLS among 228 older adults (M age =76.0 +/- 6.5 years; 59% females) who completed the TFLS as part of comprehensive assessment at an outpatient neuropsychology clinic. Executive functioning measures included the Trail Making Test (TMT) Part B, the Controlled Oral Word Association Test, and the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence-II (WASI-II) Matrix Reasoning and Similarities subtests. Results from a hierarchical regression model revealed that only TMT Part B (ß = -.23, p = .023) and WASI-II Similarities (ß = .32, p = .002) scores significantly predicted TFLS Total scores after controlling for the contributions of demographics (i.e., age, education, and gender), and intellectual functioning and capabilities in other neurocognitive domains (i.e., WASI-II Vocabulary and Block Design subtests, TMT Part A, and Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Coding subtest, and the Immediate Memory, Delayed Memory, and Visuospatial/Construction Indices).


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Atividades Cotidianas , Envelhecimento/fisiologia , Função Executiva/fisiologia , Desempenho Psicomotor/fisiologia , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Testes Neuropsicológicos
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Arch Clin Neuropsychol ; 35(1): 116-121, 2019 Jan 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30796805

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OBJECTIVE: Prior factor analysis of the Texas Functional Living Scale (TFLS), a performance-based measure of functional abilities, in a military veteran sample supported four factors discrepant from the published subscales. This study analyzed TFLS factor structure in a non-veteran clinical sample. METHOD: Two hundred seventy adult outpatients completed the TFLS during neuropsychological evaluation. Principal axis factor analysis with oblique promax rotation was conducted with age and education effects partialed out. RESULTS: Parallel analysis indicated five factors for extraction that accounted for a combined 48% of the variance. The first factor independently explained 26% of the total variance. Inspection of factor loadings suggested the following factor interpretations: complex calculations/time, complex visual search, praxis, memory, and basic calculations/math concepts. Five items did not significantly load onto any of the factors. CONCLUSIONS: Current results did not entirely correspond to the published subscales or prior results in a veteran sample. Further clarification of the TFLS factor structure is warranted.


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Atividades Cotidianas/psicologia , Testes Neuropsicológicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Pacientes Ambulatoriais/psicologia , Adulto , Idoso , Análise Fatorial , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Psicometria , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes
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J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci ; 73(6): 964-973, 2018 08 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29741663

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Objectives: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive disease reflected in markers across assessment modalities, including neuroimaging, cognitive testing, and evaluation of adaptive function. Identifying a single continuum of decline across assessment modalities in a single sample is statistically challenging because of the multivariate nature of the data. To address this challenge, we implemented advanced statistical analyses designed specifically to model complex data across a single continuum. Method: We analyzed data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI; N = 1,056), focusing on indicators from the assessments of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) volume, fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) metabolic activity, cognitive performance, and adaptive function. Item response theory was used to identify the continuum of decline. Then, through a process of statistical scaling, indicators across all modalities were linked to that continuum and analyzed. Results: Findings revealed that measures of MRI volume, FDG-PET metabolic activity, and adaptive function added measurement precision beyond that provided by cognitive measures, particularly in the relatively mild range of disease severity. More specifically, MRI volume, and FDG-PET metabolic activity become compromised in the very mild range of severity, followed by cognitive performance and finally adaptive function. Conclusion: Our statistically derived models of the AD pathological cascade are consistent with existing theoretical models.


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Doença de Alzheimer/patologia , Atividades Cotidianas/psicologia , Idoso , Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Biomarcadores , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Encéfalo/patologia , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Progressão da Doença , Feminino , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Modelos Estatísticos , Neuroimagem , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Tomografia por Emissão de Pósitrons
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J Alzheimers Dis ; 43(1): 289-90, 2015.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25079800

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The paper, "Ethnicity Moderates Dementia's Biomarkers", by Royall and Palmer in this issue of Journal of Alzheimer's Disease represents the cutting edge of Alzheimer's disease (AD) research. The authors capitalize on several powerful and emerging trends in AD research that will surely reap benefits for our discipline during the next decade: latent variable models, biomarkers, and ethnicity. In this study, the authors specifically find that self-reported ethnicity moderates the dementing process and hypothesize that this is more likely due to distinct biological mechanisms than environmental influences.


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Demência/sangue , Demência/etnologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino
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Psychol Assess ; 27(4): 1234-40, 2015 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25938338

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As research increasingly focuses on preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD), instruments must be retooled to identify early cognitive markers of AD. A supplemental delayed recall subtest for the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-cognitive (ADAS-cog; Mohs, Rosen, & Davis, 1983; Rosen, Mohs, & Davis, 1984) is commonly implemented, but it is not known precisely where along the spectrum of cognitive dysfunction this subtest yields incremental information beyond what is gained from the standard ADAS-cog, or whether it can improve prediction of functional outcomes. An item response theory approach can analyze this in a psychometrically rigorous way. Seven hundred eighty-eight patients with AD or amnestic complaints or impairment completed a battery including the ADAS-cog and 2 activities of daily living measures. The delayed recall subtest slightly improved the ADAS-cog's measurement precision in the mild range of cognitive dysfunction and increased prediction of instrumental activities of daily living for individuals with subjective memory impairment.


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Atividades Cotidianas/psicologia , Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Disfunção Cognitiva/diagnóstico , Rememoração Mental , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Doença de Alzheimer/psicologia , Disfunção Cognitiva/psicologia , Estudos Transversais , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Psicometria
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Clin Neuropsychol ; 29(7): 1002-9, 2015.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26617181

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OBJECTIVE: Clinicians and researchers who measure cognitive dysfunction often use the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale--Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-Cog), the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), or the Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR-SOB). But, the use of different measures can make it difficult to compare data across patients or studies. What is needed is a simple chart that shows how scores on these three important measures correspond to each other. METHODS: Using data from 1709 participants from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative and item response theory-based statistics, we analyzed how scores on each measure, the ADAS-Cog, the MMSE, and the CDR-SOB, correspond. RESULTS: Results indicated multiple inflections in CDR-SOB and ADAS-Cog scores within a given MMSE score, suggesting that the CDR-SOB and ADAS-Cog are more precise in measuring the severity of cognitive dysfunction than the MMSE. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows how scores on these three popular measures of cognitive dysfunction correspond to each other, which is very useful information for both researchers and clinicians.


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Doença de Alzheimer/psicologia , Transtornos Cognitivos/psicologia , Cognição , Idoso , Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Transtornos Cognitivos/diagnóstico , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica
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Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen ; 30(1): 98-100, 2015 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25425736

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BACKGROUND: The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether an informative Web site is effective at producing higher scores for an individual's knowledge of Alzheimer's disease (AD) relative to those who do not visit a Web site. METHODS: A total of 552 participants completed the study on Amazon's Mechanical Turk; half were randomly assigned to visit alz.org, while a control group did not. Both groups were given the AD Knowledge Scale (ADKS) to assess their knowledge of AD. RESULTS: Participants who visited alz.org scored significantly higher on the ADKS than those in the control group. Participants who were health care workers demonstrated higher scores than others in the experimental condition. Findings indicate that the Alzheimer's Association Web site is effective at producing higher scores for AD knowledge relative to no Web site at all and that it is especially helpful for health care workers compared to those who are not health care workers.


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Doença de Alzheimer , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Pessoal de Saúde/educação , Internet , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Distribuição Aleatória , Adulto Jovem
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