RT Journal Article
T1 Factors that indicate performance on the MoCA 7.3 in healthy adults over 50 years old
A1 Bugallo Carrera, César
A1 Dosil Díaz, Carlos
A1 Pereiro Rozas, Arturo X.
A1 Anido Rifón, Luis
A1 Gandoy Crego, Manuel
K1 Aging
K1 MoCA Test performance
K1 Cognitive reserve
K1 Depressive symptoms
K1 MoCA test
AB Human aging is a physiological, progressive, heterogeneous global process that causes a decline of all body systems, functions, and organs. Throughout this process, cognitive function suffers an incremental decline with broad interindividual variability.The first objective of this study was to examine the differences in the performance on the MoCA test (v. 7.3) per gender and the relationship between the performance and the variables age, years of schooling, and depressive symptoms .The second objective was to identify factors that may influence the global performance on the MoCA test (v. 7.3) and of the domains orientation, language, memory, attention/calculation, visuospatial and executive function, abstraction, and identification.A cross-sectional study was carried out in which five hundred seventy-three (573) cognitively healthy adults ≥ 50 years old were included in the study. A sociodemographic questionnaire, the GDS-15 questionnaire to assess depression symptoms and the Spanish version of the MoCA Test (v 7.3) were administered. The evaluations were carried out between the months of January and June 2022. Differences in the MoCA test performance per gender was assessed with Student’s t-test for independent samples. The bivariate Pearson correlation was applied to examine the relationship between total scoring of the MoCA test performance and the variables age, years of schooling, and depressive symptoms. Different linear multiple regression analyses were performed to determine variables that could influence the MoCA test performance.We found gender-related MoCA Test performance differences. An association between age, years of schooling, and severity of depressive symptoms was observed. Age, years of schooling, and severity of depressive symptoms influence the MoCA Test performance, while gender does not
PB Springer Nature
SN 1471-2318
YR 2024
FD 2024-06-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40292
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40292
LA eng
NO Bugallo-Carrera, C., Dosil-Díaz, C., Pereiro, A.X. et al. Factors that indicate performance on the MoCA 7.3 in healthy adults over 50 years old. BMC Geriatr 24, 482 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05102-1
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026