Propriedades psicométricas da versão brasileira do Teste Comportamental de Memória de Rivermead (RBMT) em idosos

• Autor(a) principal: Steibel, Nicole Maineri
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7576
• topic: Envelhecimento; Cognição; Memória; Neuropsicologia; Escolaridade; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA

Background: Along with increased longevity elderly are accompanied by diseases such as cognitive decline. Despite the increase in scientific research on cognitive aging, there are few adapted and validated for the American Latin countries. Thus, there is need for greater availability of valid instruments, reliable, standardized and standardized for use with the Brazilian population. Studies also show that education has a significant impact on cognitive performance, which may confound interpretation of the test results. It is noteworthy that low education with elderly performed worse on memory tests which can be seen in the ecological test and thus modify regulation standards is necessary because the test complements the traditional procedures of formal assessment of memory. The behavioral test Rivermead memory differs by being a functional and ecological test, widely used for memory assessment in aging may be of great value for the diagnosis and the use of formal cognitive batteries. Objective: Thus, these works has the main objective suggest normative data for the elderly, stratified by age and education to the Behavioral Test Rivermead Memory (RBMT) and evaluates the effect of these variables in a sample of elderly with preserved cognition, as well as comparatively analyze the results of normal and depressed elderly people with low education. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving a sample of 233 healthy elderly from a third-age group in Porto Alegre with an average age of 70 (SD 7.9) years and 10.7 (SD 4.8) years of education was carried out. The sample was stratified into the following age groups: 60-69 years, 70-79 years and > 80 years. The sample was also divided into individuals with < 8 years and ≥ 8 years of education. Pearson’s Chi-squared test and Spearman correlations were used. Results: The elderly participants with low educational level had worse performance on all sub-tests, except the Pictures, Messages, Belongings and Orientation. Older elderly performed worse for total RBMT score and on the Face Recognition, Immediate and Delayed Route, Messages and Belongings subtests (p ≤ 0.005). Conclusion: Mean scores for age and schooling were suggested in ecological tasks, which is an aspect to be taken into account in the context of the neuropsychological evaluation of cognitively normal elderly.