%0 Journal Article
%T Treino cognitivo e interven£¿£¿o psicoeducativa para indiv¨ªduos hipertensos: efeitos na cogni£¿£¿o
%A Lima-Silva
%A Thais Bento
%A Yassuda
%A Monica Sanches
%J Psicologia: Reflex£¿o e Cr¨ªtica
%D 2012
%I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
%R 10.1590/S0102-79722012000100005
%X objectives: to evaluate the possibility of combining cognitive training to an educational intervention composed by eight sessions about hypertension for a better management of the disease among the elderly. methods: 64 older adults who reported having hypertension, divided into experimental group (eg, n=35) and control group (cg, n=29) participated in the study. control participants received training after the post-test. the protocol contained socio-demographic and clinical data, mini-mental state examination (mmse), geriatric depression scale (gds), rivermead behavioral memory test (rbmt), verbal fluency animal category (vf) and short cognitive test (skt). results: the eg showed better cognitive performance when compared with the cg, at post-test. conclusion: cognitive gains may occur after psychoeducational interventions for older adults with hypertension.
%K elderly people
%K cognition
%K cognitive training
%K hypertension
%K psychoeducation.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0102-79722012000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en