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P2‐448: PATTERNS OF PERFORMANCE ON THE FULD OBJECT MEMORY EVALUATION IN ELDERLY COMMUNITY WITH DEPRESSION AND HEALTHY CONTROLS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
Author(s) -
Avila Renata,
Imanari Ribeiz Salma Rose
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2019.06.2855
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychology , cued recall , cued speech , dementia , recall , audiology , clinical psychology , depressive symptoms , cognition , memory disorder , free recall , psychiatry , medicine , cognitive disorder , cognitive impairment , disease , cognitive psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Background: Globally, anxiety diseases are the mental health concerns that increase the mortality and morbidity. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) refers to the tendency of individuals to fear anxiety-related symptoms due to the belief that these symptoms may have destructive consequences. Methods: Cross-sectional study was conducted to validate ASI-16 on a non-psychiatric sample of 90 recruited students from the University of Rwanda. The recruited participants were aged 19 to 37 years old [(Mean age (M1⁄423.9, SD 1⁄4 3.69)]. SPSS version 22 was used to analyse the descriptive and analytical data. Results: The findings confirmed a good internal consistence (Cronbach’s Alpha, a1⁄4 0.83). The results revealed the ASI-16 criterion related convergent validity of ASI-16 (r1⁄4.59; p1⁄4.000; ASI and STAI) and criterion related concurrent validity (r1⁄4.069; p1⁄4.51; ASI and BDI). Using factor analysis, the findings showed an overlapping of physical, psychological and social aspects attesting that ASI is one-dimensional tool assessing anxiety symptoms. More than a quarter (1/4) of items seemed to assess all three factors of ASI; this attested that there were interconnections between physical, psychological or cognitive and social aspects. The participants who scored highly were considered to have the anxiety symptoms. In the present sample, the t-test was computed to compare males and females on the ASI-16 total scores and showed that there was no significant difference at 5% level [(Mean of males1⁄429.3, Mean of females1⁄429.57), t (26.176) at p1⁄4.000]. Conclusions: The results confirmed that ASI-16 seems to be valid and reliable to screen anxiety symptoms in a Rwandan sample. ASI’s norms should be constructed on the Rwandan population. P2-448 PATTERNS OF PERFORMANCE ON THE FULD OBJECT MEMORY EVALUATION IN ELDERLY COMMUNITY WITH DEPRESSION AND HEALTHY CONTROLS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS