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Real-world compensatory strategy use in community-dwelling mid-life and older adults: An evaluation of quality.
- Source :
- Clinical Neuropsychologist; Feb2024, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p429-452, 24p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Objective: Older adults often spontaneously engage in compensatory strategies (CS) to support everyday task completion, but factors that influence success of chosen CS remain unclear. This study examines whether real-world prospective memory (PM) task completion is better predicted by CS count or a CS quality rating. Method: Seventy mid-life and older adult participants were presented four novel, real-world PM tasks via remote assessment and encouraged to use their typical CS. The examiner captured detailed information about planned CS at task presentation (T1) and utilized CS at follow-up testing (T2). From this information, count (CS Count; quantity of CS) and quality (CS Quality; rating of CS thoroughness and utility) scores were coded separately for the planned and utilized CS. PM task performance accuracy was also coded (PM Accuracy). Results: Hierarchical regressions revealed planned CS Count and Quality did not predict PM Accuracy. In contrast, the utilized CS Quality predicted a significant amount of PM Accuracy variance over and above CS Count, global cognition, and age (R<superscript>2</superscript> =.47, ΔR<superscript>2</superscript> =.24, ΔF = 29.36, p <.001, f<superscript>2</superscript> =.45). Furthermore, utilized CS Quality accounted for a similar amount of variance in PM Accuracy when utilized CS Count was removed from the model. Conclusions: This study's CS coding system can capture and quantify the quality of strategies, which uniquely predicts real-world PM performance. This coding system may provide researchers with a nuanced CS measure and lead to improved CS interventions designed to support everyday PM performance, such as targeted CS trainings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- OLDER people
MIDDLE age
PROSPECTIVE memory
TASK performance
RESEARCH personnel
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13854046
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Neuropsychologist
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175034883
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2023.2209927