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ARCHIVES OF CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 165-175Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acr116
Keywords
Assessment; Elderly; Norms; Mild Cognitive Impairment; Alzheimers disease; Dementia
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology] [SFRH/BD/38019/2007]
- Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian [Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation] [Proc.74569, SDH-22]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/38019/2007] Funding Source: FCT
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The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief cognitive instrument for screening milder forms of cognitive impairment. The present study aimed to analyze the influence of sociodemographic (age, gender, educational level, marital and employment status, geographic region, geographic localization, and residence area) and health variables (subjective memory complaints of the participant and evaluated by the informant, depressive symptoms, and family history of dementia) on the participants performance on the MoCA. The investigation was carried out in a Portuguese community-based sample of 650 cognitively healthy adults, who were representative of the distribution observed in the Portuguese population. Educational level and age significantly contributed to the prediction of the MoCA scores, explaining 49 of the variance. Regarding health variables, only the subjective memory complaints of the participant showed a small contribution (9) to the variance on the MoCA scores. This study contributes a useful approach to understanding MoCA performance, stressing the great impact of education and age on scores.
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