Open AccessSUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF AN ONLINE STUDY
Author(s) -
Mariana Luciano de Almeida,
Carina Tellaroli Spedo,
Ari Pedro Balieiro Júnior,
Paulo Caramelli,
Sônia Maria Dozzi Brucki,
Benito Damasceno,
Ricardo Nitríni,
Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci,
Jerusa Smid,
Norberto Anízio Ferreira Frota,
Thais Lima- Silva,
Marcio Balthazar,
Karolina G. César,
Elisa de Paula França Resende,
Adalberto Studart Neto,
Francisco Assis Carvalho Vale
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
dementia and neuropsychologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.54
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 1980-5764
DOI - 10.5327/1980-5764.rpda099
Subject(s) - cognitive decline , cognition , neuropsychology , population , cross sectional study , psychology , demography , medicine , computer assisted web interviewing , gerontology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , dementia , environmental health , disease , pathology , marketing , sociology , business
Background: We observe Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) when patients perceive a decline in their cognitive functions, but this decline is not detected in neuropsychological assessments. Few studies have investigated the prevalence of SCD in the Brazilian population. Objective: Analyze the profile of 50+ years Brazilian people regarding SCD through a self-administered online questionnaire Methods: Cross-sectional study, in the online modality. The recruitment of participants took place through email, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Results: We received 1440 responses, mainly from the country’s Southeast region (80.0%). Most of the respondents were female (67.0%), with a mean age of 58.7 (SD=8.5) years, heterosexual (97.3%), skin color referred to as white (84.5%), married (67.6%), post-graduated (51.0%) and working, but not retired (45.5%). About 55.0% reported that their memory has worsened over the past five years and 50.0% of those informed that the worsening of memory worries them. For 38.0% of the respondents, their memory is adequate. Regarding cognitive functions in the last five years, 41.0% claim that they have had problems with attention or concentration, 46.0% that their reasoning has slowed down, and 55% that they have had issues with language. Conclusion: An expressive proportion of the analyzed sample perceived a decline in their cognition at some level.