Research Article
Subjective Memory Complaint and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Portugal
Table 1
Demographics and test scores of the study groups.
| | Whole sample () | GDS | | Not depressed
(GDS < 10; ) | Depressed
(GDS ≥ 11; ) |
| | Age (years) M ± SD | 74.04 ± 10.41 | 72.52 ± 10.48 | 75.80 ± 10.06 | 0.00 | | Female (%) | 449 (72.4) | 232 (69.7) | 217 (75.6) | 0.09 | | Education (years) M ± SD | 3.61 ± 3.38 | 4.27 ± 3.55 | 2.85 ± 2.99 | 0.00 | | No education completed (%) | 178 (28.7) | 61 (18.3) | 117 (40.8) | 0.00 | | Primary school (%) | 370 (59.7) | 249 (74.8) | 159 (55.4) | | Secondary school (%) | 56 (9) | 9 (2.7) | 9 (3.1) | | High school/university (%) | 16 (2.6) | 14 (4.2) | 2 (0.7) | | MMSE M ± SD (range) | 24.85 ± 5.61 (6–30) | 26.61 ± 4.38 | 22.80 ± 6.17 | 0.00 | | MoCA M ± SD (range) | 18.20 ± 7.93 (1–31) | 20.97 ± 6.64 | 14.98 ± 8.08 | 0.00 | | QSM M ± SD (range) | 7.69 ± 4.28 (0–18) | 5.80 ± 3.26 | 9.87 ± 4.29 | 0.00 | | Clinically significant SMC (%) | 489 (78.9) | 228 (68.5) | 261 (90.9) | 0.00 | | GDS M ± SD (range) | 9.28 ± 4.95 (0–20) | | | |
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MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; QSM: Portuguese version of SMC scale; GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale.
Chi-square test.
Independent -tests.
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