| Author/Editor | Avberšek, Andreja; Blatnik, Olga | |
| Title | Uspešnost preizkusa risanja ure pri normalnih slovenskih starostnikih z različno izobrazbo | |
| Type | monografija | |
| Place | Ljubljana | |
| Publisher | Univerza v Ljubljani, Medicinska fakulteta | |
| Publication year | 2004 | |
| Volume | str. 41 | |
| Language | slo | |
| Abstract | BACKGROUND. With a rapidly growing elderly population, dementia and other neuropsychiatric disorders will become one of the major clinical and public health challenges of the next generation. Early detection of dementia carries with it a number of important potential benefits: the possibility of pharmaceutical intervention, improved recognition and treatment of comorbid medical disorders and efficient rehabilitation. Brief cognitive tests have an important role in initial screening for dementia. So far, no other screening tool apart from the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) has been appropriately introduced in Slovenia. The MMSE is a useful instrument for assessing most types of cognitive funetion. However, it is less reliable in testing frontal lobe (executive) function. In order to compensate for this deficit the MMSE can be complemented with a test that adequately assesses executive function, namely the Clock-Drawing Test (CDT). AIM. Although commonly used by researchers at Ljubljana - Polje University Psychiatric Hospital, CDT has not yet been standardized and validated in Slovenia. A standard procedure of applying and evaluating CDT, as well as normative values for Slovenian population are yet to be defined. Our aim was to apply CDT to a minimum of 90 normal subjects of different age and educational level, which is the first step towards obtaining normative values for Slovenian population. HYPOTHESIS. Results of subjects with different educational levels were compared in order to test the hypothesis that education level has no significant effect on performance on CDT. METHODS. 132 normal subjects (59 males, 73 females) aged SS to 79 years were enrolled in the study. Patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric illness were excluded, as well as those treated with medication that can after cognitive functioning. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters). | |
| Descriptors | COGNITION DISORDERS MEMORY DISORDERS NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS EDUCATIONAL STATUS DEMENTIA AGE FACTORS ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE AGED |