Pavarini Sofia Cristina Iost, Brigola Allan Gustavo, Ottaviani Ana Carolina, Luchesi Bruna Moretti, Souza Érica Nestor, Rossetti Estefani Serafim, Moralles Herick Fernando, Terassi Marélli, Oliveira Nathalia Alves, Manzine Patricia Regina, Tavares Neto Roberto Fernandes
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Gerontologia, São Carlos SP, Brasil.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, São Carlos SP, Brasil.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2018 Oct;76(10):685-691. doi: 10.1590/0004-282X20180101.
To explore the socioeconomic, demographic and psychosocial factors associated with cognitive performance in elderly caregivers from Brazil.
We evaluated 351 Brazilian elderly caregivers attending primary healthcare services regarding sociodemographic and care variables. Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) domains of orientation/attention, memory, verbal fluency, language and visuospatial were used as dependent variables in the Tobit model.
Literacy and family income were positively associated with all ACE-R domains. Age, gender, time of care (days/week) were negatively associated with some cognitive domains. Moreover, receiving emotional help and the level of hope were positively associated with specific domains.
The results may be useful for planning interventions aimed at elderly caregivers in order to prevent deficits in the different cognitive domains.
探讨与巴西老年照料者认知表现相关的社会经济、人口统计学和心理社会因素。
我们评估了351名接受初级医疗服务的巴西老年照料者的社会人口统计学和照料变量。在Tobit模型中，将修订版的Addenbrooke认知检查（ACE-R）的定向/注意力、记忆、语言流畅性、语言和视觉空间领域用作因变量。
识字率和家庭收入与所有ACE-R领域呈正相关。年龄、性别、照料时间（每周天数）与某些认知领域呈负相关。此外，获得情感帮助和希望水平与特定领域呈正相关。
这些结果可能有助于规划针对老年照料者的干预措施，以预防不同认知领域的缺陷。
