Cognitive performance of community-dwelling oldest-old individuals with major depression: the pietà study
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Background: Individuals with late-life depression (LLD) may present cognitive symptoms. We sought to determine whether a brief cognitive battery (BCB) could identify cognitive and functional deficits in oldest old individuals with LLD and a low level of education.
Methods: We evaluated 639 community-dwelling individuals aged 75+ years in Caeté (MG), Brazil. We used the MINI and GDS-15 to diagnose major depression and evaluate its severity, respectively. The cognitive evaluation comprised the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), BCB, clock-drawing test, category fluency test (animals) and Pfeffer’s Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ).
Results: Fifty-four (11.6%) of the included individuals were diagnosed with LLD; on average, these participants were aged 81.0 ± 4.8 years and had 3.9 ± 3.4 years of schooling, and 77.8% of the subjects with LLD were female. Depressed individuals scored lower than subjects without dementia/depression on the MMSE overall (p < 0.001) and on several of the MMSE subscales, namely, time (p < 0.001) and spatial orientation (p = 0.021), attention/calculation (p = 0.019), and language (p = 0.004). Individuals with LLD performed worse on the incidental and (p = 0.011) immediate memory (p = 0.046) and learning tasks (p = 0.039) of the BCB. Individuals with LLD also performed worse on the category fluency test (p =0.006), clock-drawing test (p = 0.011) and FAQ (p < 0.001). Depression severity was negatively correlated with incidental memory (ρ = −0.412; p = 0.003) and positively correlated with FAQ score (ρ = 0.308; p =
0.035). In the multiple regression analysis, only temporal orientation and FAQ score remained independently associated with LLD.
Conclusion: Individuals with depression and a low level of education presented several cognitive and functional deficits. Depression severity was negatively correlated with incidental memory and functionality. Our findings serve as a description of the presence of cognitive dysfunction in individuals with LLD and suggest that these deficits may be identified based on the results of a BCB.
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Depressao, Transtornos Cognitivos, Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais
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Geriatric depression, Late-life depression, Cognition, Oldest-old
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-psychogeriatrics/article/abs/cognitive-performance-of-communitydwelling-oldestold-individuals-with-major-depression-the-pieta-study/1D47593BBDDE78FA4549C86121F81B43#access-block