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Memory complaint in attenders at a self‐referral memory clinic: The role of cognitive factors, affective symptoms and personality
Author(s) -
Barker Andrew,
Prior Jacky,
Jones Roy
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930100908
Subject(s) - complaint , memory clinic , personality , psychology , memory impairment , clinical psychology , cognition , referral , memory problems , presentation (obstetrics) , depression (economics) , psychiatry , cognitive impairment , medicine , dementia , disease , family medicine , social psychology , macroeconomics , pathology , political science , law , economics , radiology
Memory complaint has been shown to be poorly correlated with objective memory performance in non‐demented elderly people. A previous study indicated the possible importance of depression and personality in the presentation of memory complaint in people with mild memory impairment. The present study overcomes some previous methodological limitations and describes memory complaint, cognitive, affective and personality variables in subjects with mild cognitive impairment self‐referring to a memory clinic, with non‐presenting age‐ and sex‐matched community controls. Self‐referrers had a higher original IQ, but no evidence of greater decline in memory despite having more memory complaint. Personality factors were demonstrated to be important alongside affective symptoms in the presentation of memory complaint in these subjects.