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| Screening of dementia in community dwelling elderly through informant report | | Author(s) | José-Manuel Morales, Félix Bermejo, Margarita Romero |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 8, August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 808-816 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Screening ; Living in the community ; Evaluation ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Screening tools for cognitive decline still have low accuracy for dementia, mainly in cases of mild dementia. All are affected by factors such as age, sex, educational level, sensory deficits, and several mental disorders. The information provided by a proxy close to the patient has been used during recent years in dementia diagnosis. Therefore, new questionnaires, which use the standardised information from relatives, have been developed. The aim of this study was to validate a Spanish version (S-IQCODE) of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE), a dementia screening questionnaire in Spanish population-based samples. A validity study of the screening tool as carried out on two population-based samples of community-dwelling older people with different sociodemographic characteristics (urban and rural). Dementia diagnosis was performed according to DSM-III-R criteria. The S-IQCODE showed a higher accuracy than MMSE in both samples, on sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. Results obtained with the S-IQCODE show that it could possibly be applied in screening for dementia in community-dwelling older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980827252 A |
| Classmark | EA: 3V: K4: 4C: 76S |
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