Performance of a Brazilian population on the test of functional health literacy in adults.

Objective: To analyze the scoring obtained by an instrument, which evaluates the ability to read and understand items in the health care setting, according to education and age.

Methods: The short version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults was administered to 312 healthy participants of different ages and years of schooling. The study was conducted between 2006 and 2007, in the city of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil.

Applicability of a cognitive questionnaire in the elderly and proxy.

Unlabelled: The Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly with the Proxy (IQCODE) was developed as a screening tool for cognition alterations.

Objectives: 1) To verify the applicability of IQCODE in the elderly with limited schooling,2) To verify the reliability of the responses supplied by the aged and their proxies.

Methods: Individuals of a Community Group were evaluated using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), IQCODE and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS).

Influence of age, gender and educational level on performance in the Brief Cognitive Battery-Edu.

Unlabelled: The Brief Cognitive Battery-Edu (BCB-Edu) contains nine tests, seven of which are related to the memory of drawings, and has good accuracy in the diagnosis of cognitive impairment.

Objectives: To evaluate the influence of age, gender and educational level on the performance in tests related to memory of drawings of the BCB-Edu in healthy subjects.

Methods: Participants were adult volunteers; exclusion criteria were illiteracy, neurologic or psychiatric disorders, visual or hearing impairment, untreated chronic clinical conditions, alcoholism, use of drugs, and for those aged 65 or over, an informant report of cognitive or functional impairment.

Brazilian version of the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB): Preliminary data on administration to healthy elderly.

Unlabelled: The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) has been proposed as a diagnostic tool for patients with frontal lobe syndrome.

Objectives: To present the Brazilian version of the FAB and to show preliminary data on the performance of healthy elderly in the battery, correlating with age, education and scores in the Mini- Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Methods: Forty-eight healthy elderly individuals (34 female/14 male) were evaluated, aged 69.

Brief cognitive battery in the diagnosis of mild Alzheimer's disease in subjects with medium and high levels of education.

Unlabelled: There has been an increasing trend to utilize short cognitive batteries for the diagnosis of dementia. Most of these batteries have been designed in countries with high standards of education and are less suitable for populations with low levels of education.We developed a battery that has been previously shown to be highly accurate in the diagnosis of dementia in individuals with low levels of education.