Construct validity of the mini mental state examination across time in a sample with low-education levels: 10-year follow-up of the Bambuí Cohort Study of Ageing - Castro-Costa, Érico; Dewey, Michael E.; Uchôa, Elizabeth; Firmo, Josélia O. A.; Lima-Costa, Maria Fernanda; Stewart, Robert (International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 2014)
Keywords: Academic achievement; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Biological and medical sciences; Brazil; Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale - standards; Cognition Disorders - diagnosis; construct validity; Educational Status; factor structure; Female; Follow-Up Studies; General aspects; Geriatric Assessment; Geriatric psychiatry; Geriatrics; Humans; invariance across time; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical sciences; Mental health; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; MMSE; Older people; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Time Factors; Validation studies; Brazil; Human; Mini Mental State Examination Folstein et al; Senescence; Factor analysis; Education level; Ageing; Neuropsychological test; invariance across time; Time; factor structure; Test validation; Construct validity; Gerontology; Follow up study; Cohort study; MMSE; Elderly; Psychiatry; Public health; Geriatrics; construct validity