Formal education, health literacy and Mini-Mental State Examination
Formal education, health literacy and Mini-Mental State Examination
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10.1590/s1980-57642011dn05010005
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2011-03-01
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Nitrini, Ricardo
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Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi;Mansur, Letícia Lessa;Nitrini, Ricardo
简易精神状态检查（MMSE）是一种广泛使用的认知障碍筛查测试，但受教育程度的影响很大。教育水平经常按受教育年限排列，这可能不是一个很好的间接衡量教育水平的方法，因为不同人口之间和同一国家不同地区之间的受教育水平差异很大。S-TOFHLA是一种健康素养的措施，一些结果表明，它是一个很好的措施识字level.OBJECTIVE：评估受教育年限和分数之间的相关性S-TOFHLA和MMSE.METHODS：健康受试者没有认知功能障碍提交了S-TOFHLA和MMSE。结果：受教育年限和S-TOFHLA评分与MMSE评分均呈强相关，但S-TOFHLA评分与MMSE评分的相关性最强（r=0.702，p
The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a widely used screening test for cognitive impairment, but is heavily biased by education. Educational level has frequently been ranked using years of schooling, which may not be a good indirect measure of educational level because there is great heterogeneity in standards of schooling among populations and across regions of the same country. S-TOFHLA is a measure of health literacy with some results indicating that it is a good measure for literacy level.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the correlations between years of schooling and scores on the S-TOFHLA and the MMSE.METHODS: Healthy subjects without cognitive impairment were submitted to the S-TOFHLA and the MMSE. Correlations and regression analysis were performed to determine possible associations among variables.RESULTS: Both years of schooling and S-TOFHLA scores were strongly correlated with MMSE scores, but the strongest association was reached by the S-TOFHLA (r=0.702, p