Comparison Between Two Tests of Delayed Recall for the Diagnosis of Dementia

Overview

Journal Arq Neuropsiquiatr

Publisher Thieme

Specialties Neurology
Psychiatry

Date 2006 Apr 20

PMID 16622550

Citations 26

Authors

Leonel Tadao Takada

Paulo Caramelli

Helenice Charchat Fichman

Claudia Sellitto Porto

Valeria Santoro Bahia

Renato Anghinah

Maria Teresa Carthery-Goulart

Marcia Radanovic

Jerusa Smid

Emilio Herrera Jr

Ricardo Nitrini

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Abstract

Unlabelled: Diagnosis of dementia is a challenge in populations with heterogeneous educational background.

Objective: To compare the accuracies of two delayed recall tests for the diagnosis of dementia in a community with high proportion of illiterates.

Method: The delayed recall of a word list from the CERAD battery (DR-CERAD) was compared with the delayed recall of objects presented as line drawings from the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (DR-BCSB) using ROC curves. Illiterate (23 controls and 17 patients with dementia) and literate individuals (28 controls and 17 patients with dementia) were evaluated in a community-dwelling Brazilian population.

Results: The DR-BCSB showed higher accuracy than the DR-CERAD in the illiterate (p=0.029), similar accuracy in the literate individuals (p=0.527), and a trend for higher accuracy in the entire population (p=0.084).

Conclusion: the DR-BCSB could be an alternative for the diagnosis of dementia in populations with high proportion of illiterates.

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