PREDICTIVE MODEL OF MEMORY STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS

描述：（改编自研究者摘要）80%的 来自美国3160万老年人的认知问题 与记忆有关。 当老年人有记忆问题时， 知道他们是否处于即将到来的厄运的危险中， 经历了短暂的错误。 本研究的目的是：（1） 确定元存储器是否与存储器性能相关联 老年人;（2）判断记忆力是否与 表现和元记忆的变化取决于健康，抑郁， 自我效能信念;（3）确定是否之间的关系 记忆表现和元记忆因年龄、性别、种族和教育程度而异 的长辈。 迄今为止，对认知现象感兴趣的研究人员已经 没有将潜在的中介因素充分纳入他们的理论 或调查。 这项研究将提供一个初步的知识， 可变的身体，情感和感知因素，可能会影响 元记忆与记忆的关系。 一组300名老年人 成年人，150名非洲裔和150名高加索裔美国人，年龄在70岁及以上， 将以电话随机抽样方式， 参与这项研究。 个人将首先通过 电话和后来在家里的认知障碍。 的人 认知障碍将从研究中排除。 数据收集将 发生超过12个月。 该研究的长期目标是提供 为护士制定认知干预计划以改善 老年人的记忆表现。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from investigator's abstract) Eighty percent of the cognitive complaints from the 31.6 million older people in the United States are memory related. When they have a memory problem, older adults have no way of knowing whether they are in danger of impending doom or are experiencing a transient mistake. The purposes of this study are: (1) to determine whether metamemory is associated with memory performance among the elderly; (2) to determine whether the relationship between memory performance and metamemory varies depending on health, depression, and self-efficacy beliefs; and (3) to determine whether the relationship between memory performance and metamemory varies by age, gender, race, and education of the elder. To date researchers interested in cognitive phenomena have not adequately incorporated potential mediating factors into their theories or investigations. This study will provide a beginning knowledge of alterable physical, emotional, and perceptual factors which may influence the relationship between metamemory and memory. One cohort of 300 older adults, 150 African and 150 Caucasian Americans, aged 70 and older and living in the community will be drawn by random telephone sampling to participate in this study. Individuals will be first screened over the telephone and later in the home for cognitive impairment. Those with cognitive impairment will be excluded from the study. Data collection will occur over 12 months. The long term objective of the research is to provide a basis for nurses to develop cognitive intervention programs to improve the memory performance of older adults.