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ACCURACY OF SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE COMPLAINTS IN A LONGITUDINAL
CONTEXT: THE EFFECT OF DEPRESSION AND DEMENTIA STATUS
by
Jennifer B. Dave
_____________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PSYCHOLOGY)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Jennifer B. Dave
Object Description
| Title | Accuray of subjective cognitive complaints in a longitudinal context: the effect of depression and dementia status |
| Author | Dave, Jennifer B. |
| Author email | jennifbd@usc.edu; jennifer.dave@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-05-19 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-18 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Knight, Bob |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Prescott, Carol McCleary, Carol Walsh, David Walsh, John |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study was to determine whether subjective complaints about change in memory, attention, and language accurately reflect past decline or predict future cognitive decline on neuropsychological tests in older adults with normal cognition or with Alzheimer’s disease. Further, the effect of dementia status and depressive symptoms on these relationships was assessed. Using the USC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center longitudinal dataset, subjective cognitive complaints, cognitive performance, and depressive symptoms were assessed in 132 participants. Overall, neither diagnostic group’s complaints accurately reflected past decline for any cognitive domain. Rather, depressive symptoms predicted endorsement of complaints for all domains. In addition, dementia status moderated the effect of depression on future memory decline. Finally, language complaints predicted future language decline in the entire sample, but similar relationships were not present for attention and memory. Implications of these findings are discussed. |
| Keyword | dementia; Alzheimer's disease; subjective complaints; aging; depression |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2368 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Dave, Jennifer B. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Dave-3005 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume29/etd-Dave-3005.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | ACCURACY OF SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE COMPLAINTS IN A LONGITUDINAL CONTEXT: THE EFFECT OF DEPRESSION AND DEMENTIA STATUS by Jennifer B. Dave _____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PSYCHOLOGY) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Jennifer B. Dave |
