Significant Effect Of Education Level Research Articles

The effect of depression on the quality of life of the elderly

Introduction: The elderly will experience a process of decline in body functions that will experience various medical and psychological problems that can interfere with mental health and cause depression. Depression in the elderly can interfere with their ability to complete daily tasks, which ultimately affects their independence and quality of life. This study aims to determine the effect of depression on the quality of life of the elderly at the Surakarta aisyiyah elderly center. Methods: This study was based on analytic observational research with a cross sectional approach. Samples in this study were taken directly by interview and measurement by researchers totaling 30 patients with total sampling technique. In collecting data, researchers used the GDS questionnaire to assess the level of depression and the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire to assess quality of life. Results: There is a significant effect of nutritional status on the quality of life of the elderly. There is no significant effect of education level on the quality of life of the elderly.There is a significant effect of age on quality of life. There is a significant effect of depression level on the quality of life of the elderly. Conclusion: There is a significant effect of the level of depression on the quality of life of the elderly.

Normative Data for a Neuropsychological Test Battery in the French Aging Population: 20-Year Follow-Up From the "PROgnostic OF Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events" Study.

The study aimed to present relevant norms for the evaluation of pathological aging in the French population over a 20-year period, utilizing the "PROgnostic OF cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events" test and questionnaire. Three neuropsychological evaluations were administered over 20years with 929 participants at the first cognitive evaluation (62-69years old), 631 at the second (71-78years old), and 293 at the third (81-88years old). The tests and questionnaires were administered in the following order: McNair's Cognitive Complaints Questionnaire, Depression Questionnaire of Pichot, Mini Mental State Examination, Free and Cued Selective Reminding test, Benton Visual Retention Test, Digit-Symbol Substitution Test of the WAIS-III, Trail Making Test, Stroop Test, Verbal Fluency, and the Similarities subtest of the WAIS-III. Normative data were presented at three time points of the repeated evaluation over 20years (62-69years, 71-78years, and 81-88years) and four educational levels (no diploma, primary school certificate, certificate of professional aptitude, and baccalaureate and above). The data showed a significant effect of educational level in all neuropsychological tests regardless of age. Gender primarily affected memory, Stroop scores, and Similarities scores. This study highlights the importance of educational level and gender in the evaluation of the memory and executive function of elderly persons. Furthermore, the presented norms consider the self-report cognitive complaints and depression symptoms over a long period of life.

Effect of Parental Socio-Economic Status on the Performance of Senior High School Students in the Sefwi Wiawso Municipality in Ghana

The study examined the effects of parental socio-economic status on the performance of Senior High School students in Ghana using the Sefwi Wiawso Municipality in the Western North Region of Ghana as the case. Descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. The target population of the study was 960 second-year students from four senior high schools in the Sefwi Wiawso Municipality. Using a formula, the sample of 203 students was determined. The study found out that parents’ income has effect on students’ performance. The findings showed a significant effect of educational level of parent on students’ performance as well. Furthermore, a significant relationship between parents’ occupation and students’ performance was established. The study found that family environment has a positive relationship with the performance of students. The study also found a significant influence of socio-economic status of parents on students’ self-motivation for learning. It also revealed a significant influence of socio-economic status of parents on students’ performance. It is recommended that the government of Ghana should consider initiating policies that would empower parents, especially those in the areas where poverty level is high, for them to be able to take good care of their children in school.

Determinan Pernikahan Dini pada Remaja Putri

Early marriage still occurs due to various factors. This study aims to analyze and identify the factors that influence marriage in young women. This research method uses an analytical survey with a casecontrol design. The population in this study was 169 young women. The sample in this study was 64 young women according to the inclusion criteria. Data analysis in this study used the Chi-Square statistical test. The results of the study using Chi-Square showed that education (0.001) < (0.05), parental income (0.008) < (0.05), pregnancy out of wedlock (0.000) < (0.05). The conclusion is that there is a significant effect of education level, parental income, and pregnancy outside of marriage on early marriage in adolescent girls.

Educational level, ethnicity and mortality rates in Israel: national data linkage study

BackgroundMany studies have shown significant gaps in mortality, and cause specific mortality by educational status. This study investigated these measures in Israel by educational and ethnic status in recent decades.MethodA mortality follow-up till 2017 was done of a cohort of Israeli residents aged 25–64 in 2000 who remained in Israel and had available educational data, grouped into under 8, 9–11, 12, 13–15 and 16 and above years of education. Indirect age adjustment was used to calculate Standard Mortality Ratios (SMRs) by sex and educational group, and a Cox regression model to assess relative risk of total and cause specific mortality controlling for age and ethnic group (Jews and Others and Arabs).The analysis was repeated for each ethnic group separately.Results2,776,422 persons were included of whom 174,792 (6.3%) died till 2017. SMR’s for total mortality of males and females with less than 8 years of education compared to 16 and over were 2.2 and 1.8, respectively. Corresponding HR were 2.13 (95% CI 2.08–2.18) and 1.77 (95% CI 1.72–1.82), respectively.The highest cause specific hazard ratios in males were for homicide, 4.40 (95% CI 3.19–6.07), respiratory diseases, 4.01 (95% CI 3.61–4.44), infectious diseases, 3.55 (95% CI 3.15–3.19) and diabetes 3.41 (95% CI 3.06–3.79) and in females for diabetes, 4.41 (95% CI 3.76–5.16), infectious diseases, 4.16 (95% CI 3.52–4.91), respiratory diseases, 4.13 (95% CI 3.55–4.81), and heart disease, 2.96 (95% CI 2.66–3.29).Education-adjusted risk of all-cause mortality for Arab males was 1.07 (1.05–1.09) times that of Jews and Others and non-significant in females. High mortality risk was found for Arab males and females compared to Jews and Others for homicide, diabetes, heart and cerebrovascular disease and for respiratory disease in males. Lower risk was found for suicide and infectious diseases in both sexes andcancer in females.ConclusionWe found significant effect of educational level on all-cause and cause specific mortality, particularly respiratory diseases, infectious diseases, diabetes and homicide. Our results highlight the importance of increasing the educational level of all groups in the population and of encouraging healthy behavior in the lower educated.

TNI-93: A New Memory Test for Dementia Detection in Illiterate and Low-Educated Patients.

To validate the TNI-93 test in illiterate and low-educated subjects bysetting cutoff scores to discriminate non-demented and demented subjects in a clinical setting (CESILL) and verifying the adequacy of these cutoff scores in a population-based study (AMI cohort). We used two study samples. First, a clinical setting (CESILL) comprising normal elderly participants and demented patients, mostly multicultural, low educated, or illiterate, was used to compute the cutoff scores of TNI-93 for the detection of dementia. Second, the AMI cohort, a population-based cohort of retired farmers living in a rural setting, was used as a replication study, to assess the detection properties of the cutoff scores in a different population composed mostly of low-educated older people. When combining the two scores, that is, free recall <6 or total recall <9, TNI-93 can detect dementia with a high sensitivity (87%) and specificity (96%), in the CESILL setting. These cutoff scores were roughly similar in the AMI cohort with high sensitivity (80% sensitivity) and specificity (81% specificity). In both study samples, the level of education had no effect on performance. The TNI-93 appears to be a good test to detect dementia. The absence of a significant effect of education level on the performances makes the TNI-93 a tool of choice in the screening of dementia in illiterate/low-educated subjects.

Propositional Idea Density in women's written language over the lifespan: Computerized analysis

The informativeness of written language, as measured by Propositional Idea Density (PD), has been shown to be a sensitive predictive index of language decline with age and dementia in previous research. The present study investigated the influence of age and education on the written language of three large cohorts of women from the general community, born between 1973 and 1978, 1946–51 and 1921–26. Written texts were obtained from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health in which participants were invited to respond to an open-ended question about their health. The informativeness of written comments of 10 words or more (90% of the total number of comments) was analyzed using the Computerized Propositional Idea Density Rater 3 (CPIDR-3). Over 2.5 million words used in 37,705 written responses from 19,512 respondents were analyzed. Based on a linear mixed model approach to statistical analysis with adjustment for several factors including number of comments per respondent and number of words per comment, a small but statistically significant effect of age was identified for the older cohort with mean age 78 years. The mean PD per word for this cohort was lower than the younger and mid-aged cohorts with mean age 27 and 53 years respectively, with mean reduction in PD 95% confidence interval (CI) of .006 (.003, .008) and .009 (.008, .011) respectively. This suggests that PD for this population of women was relatively more stable over the adult lifespan than has been reported previously even in late old age. There was no statistically significant effect of education level. Computerized analyses were found to greatly facilitate the study of informativeness of this large corpus of written language. Directions for further research are discussed in relation to the need for extended investigation of the variability of the measure for potential application to the identification of acquired language pathologies.

Construction and validation of an ecological version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test applied to an elderly population

ABSTRACTThe goal of this project was to construct and validate an ecological version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) aimed at the elderly. This was accomplished by replacing the geometric stimuli of the traditional version with stimuli belonging to the semantic category of transport vehicles, and by elimination of the color yellow. The results showed the ecological WCST version was preferred over the traditional version and older people felt less tired during test performance. In the two independent normal elderly groups, all pairs of scores that can be derived from the WCST correlated significantly with each other. Six of 11 outcome measures of the traditional WCST-128 (long) version were significantly influenced by age. By contrast, in the WCST-64 (short) version and in the ecological WCST-54 version only one measure was affected by the age variable. No significant effect of education level or gender emerged from the results in any WCST version. Again, the subjects with cognitive deterioration had lower performance in the ecological WCST-54 version than in the two traditional WCST versions. It seems reasonable to assume that the ecological version of WCST is more discriminating and has more advantages than the traditional versions. Further research on individual differences in the performance on this task will increase understanding of the components of the test, and of the variety of factors and possible deficits that could lead to an impaired performance of the test.

Evaluating communication skills in the OSCE format: reliability and generalizability.

In most objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs), communication skills are assessed as an 'add-on' to history-taking stations, rather than in stations designed to assess communication skills in the broadest sense. This study investigated the feasibility of developing such stations. In part one, 60 clinical clerks and 36 residents were rated in four 10-min emotionally charged situations portrayed by standardized patients. Inter-rater reliability was demonstrated (r = 0.59-0.63) and a highly significant effect of educational level was found. Generalizability between communication stations was low (0.17-0.20). Several explanations for poor generalizability, including poor discrimination as a result of low score variance and the confounding effect of content knowledge, were addressed in part 2. Ninety-five final-year medical students participated in an OSCE in which six 10-min encounters examined the students' ability to manage difficult emotional situations such as fear, anxiety, mania, sadness, confusion and anger. Half the students encountered a patient with moderate emotional symptoms and half an extreme emotional state. For difficult stations, students' scores were lower and standard deviation higher, suggesting that manipulating difficulty increases score variance and potentially discrimination. However, a strong interaction was found between difficulty and station content, and communication scores were highly correlated with content. Scenarios which created major communication difficulties (such as mania) resulted in much larger differences in scores between the easy and difficult versions. Communication OSCE stations can be created with acceptable reliability including difficult cases which address communication skills beyond simple history taking. Nevertheless, a generalizable set of communication skills remains elusive.