Young-Old City-Dwellers Outperform Village Counterparts in Attention and Verbal Control Tasks.

Cognitive performance is dynamic and shaped by individual biological and environmental factors throughout life. In psychology, besides the effects of age, education, and other often studied factors, the complexity of the lived-in environment and urbanicity in that context are yet to be elucidated. In this observational cross-sectional study, we compare cognitive performance in standard neuropsychological tests in healthy older persons from three different types of settlements in the Czechia: the capital city of Prague, towns, and villages.

Beck Depression Inventory-II: Self-report or interview-based administrations show different results in older persons.

Unlabelled: ABSTRACTBeck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is one of the most-used rating scales. It was developed as a tool administered either as a self-rating or interview-based, observer-rating scale.

Objective: The goal of this study is to compare BDI-II scores obtained with two standard methods of administration in community-based older persons.