Aplicação da versão Brasileira da escala de avaliação clínica da demência (clinical dementia rating - CDR) em amostras de pacientes com demência

Translated title of the contribution: Application of the Brazilian version of the CDR scale in samples of dementia patients

Alberto Luiz Grigoli Maia, Cláudia Godinho, Eduardo Daura Ferreira, Vanessa Almeida, Artur Schuh, Jeffrey Kaye, Márcia Lorena Fagundes Chaves

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Abstract

Objective: The objective of the study was the analysis of agreement between the CDR scale with diagnostic criteria and mini mental state examination (MMSE), as well as correlation with Blessed scale, in a sample of Southern Brazilian patients. Method: The CDR scale was cross-sectionaly evaluated in 269 dementia patients Alzheimer's disease (AD) vascular dementia, and questionable. The NINCDS-ADRDA criteria for probable AD and the NINDS-AIREN for probable vascular dementia were the gold standard. The MMSE, the Blessed scale, the Hachinski ischemic score, and a battery of cognitive tests were also applied. Results: The agreement to gold standard was good (kappa=0.73), while to MMSE categorized was moderate (kappa=0.53). A significant correlation with the Blessed scale (r=0.96; p=0.001) was observed. Education and age were similar among CDR categories. Conclusion: The global score agreement of the CDR scale with the gold standard was good, and with the MMSE was moderate. We also observed face validity for dementia severity. No impact of education was observed upon CDR global scores.

Translated title of the contributionApplication of the Brazilian version of the CDR scale in samples of dementia patients
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)485-489
Number of pages5
JournalArquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
Volume64
Issue number2 B
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

Keywords

  • Agreement analysis
  • Brazil
  • CDR scale
  • Dementia
  • Mini Mental State

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Neurology
  • Neurology
  • Biological Psychiatry

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