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Previous issue date: 2006-10-30 / The increase of elderly population in the world and in Brazil has indicated the necessity of health systems capable to evaluate, to diagnose and to intervene in the conditions of health and disease of that segment. During that stage of human development, physical and cognitive changes happen and they are capable to influence the functional acting. It s important to distinguish the limit between the normal and the pathological. Besides the common changes during the aging, biological rhithmicity changes happen, as alterations in the cycle vigil-sleep that can influence in certain tasks performance. This study aimed to verify the influence of the age, of the sex and of the hour in a maze test performance. Eighty individuals were evaluated, 40 youths (20 men and 20 women) and 40 senior (20 men and 20 women). They were separated in 2 different groups that were tested at 9:00 o clock and at 15:00 o clock. Initially they were submitted to health evaluation, cognitive evaluation and of sleep quality and chronotype. They were instructed to accomplish the maze test whose time of execution was timed and registered. Significant differences were observed according to age for the masculine group between elderly in the morning and in the afternoon and in the feminine group between youth and elderly in the test accomplished in the morning and in the afternoon. Significant differences were not observed according to sex and hour of the day and also between attempts. In compare between the 30th and the31st, accomplished in a 15minutes of interval, significant difference was observed just for the elderly group in the morning and in the afternoon. We observed significant correlations in the maze test performance with the cronotype, with the age, with the education and with the cognitive acting. The maze test was capable to detect differences between age in the acting profile and in the evaluation of the information maintenance after 15 minutes, however it was not possible to verify difference between sex and hour of the day. Finally the correlations of the maze test with another varied may indicate your importance as coadjutant instrument in those functions evaluation / O crescimento da popula??o idosa no mundo e no Brasil tem apontado para necessidade de sistemas de sa?de capazes de avaliar, diagnosticar e intervir nas condi??es de sa?de e doen?a desse segmento. Durante essa fase do desenvolvimento humano ocorrem altera??es f?sicas e cognitivas capazes de influenciar o desempenho funcional. Uma quest?o importante ? diferenciar o limite entre o normal e o patol?gico, uma vez que al?m das mudan?as comuns durante o envelhecimento, ocorrem mudan?as da ritmicidade biol?gica, como altera??es no ciclo vig?lia-sono, que podem influenciar no desempenho de determinadas tarefas. O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a influ?ncia da idade, do sexo e da hora no desempenho em um teste de labirinto. Foram avaliados 80 indiv?duos, 40 jovens (20 homens e 20 mulheres) e 40 idosos (20 homens e 20 mulheres), divididos em 2 grupos que foram testados as 9:00 horas e as 15:00 horas. Inicialmente foram submetidos ? avalia??o de sa?de e cognitiva e avalia??o da qualidade do sono e do cronotipo. Foram orientados a realizar o teste de labirinto cujo tempo de execu??o foi cronometrado e registrado. Foram observadas diferen?as significativas de acordo com idade para o grupo masculino entre idosos na manh? e na tarde e no grupo feminino entre jovens e idosas no teste realizado pela manh? e na tarde. N?o foram observadas diferen?as significativas de acordo com o sexo e a hora do dia e entre as tentativas. Na compara??o entre a 30? e a 31?, realizadas com intervalo de 15 minutos, foi observada diferen?a significativa apenas para o grupo de idosos na manh? e na tarde. E foram observadas correla??es significativas do desempenho no teste de labirinto com o cronotipo, com a idade, com a escolaridade e com o desempenho cognitivo. O teste de labirinto foi capaz de detectar diferen?as de acordo com a idade no perfil do desempenho e na avalia??o da reten??o da informa??o ap?s 15 minutos, entretanto n?o foi poss?vel verificar diferen?a de acordo com o sexo e a hora do dia. Finalmente as correla??es do teste de labirinto com outras vari?veis podem indicar sua import?ncia como instrumento coadjuvante na avalia??o dessas fun??es
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.ufrn.br:123456789/17358 |
| Date | 30 October 2006 |
| Creators | Souza, Dami?o Ernane de |
| Contributors | CPF:60336641400, http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4784002J7, Menezes, Alexandre Augusto de Lara, CPF:10845054449, http://lattes.cnpq.br/1846287904254246, Dias, Ros?ngela Corr?a, CPF:22808000634, http://lattes.cnpq.br/8469200780324128, Campos, T?nia Fernandes |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Psicobiologia, UFRN, BR, Estudos de Comportamento; Psicologia Fisiol?gica |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFRN, instname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, instacron:UFRN |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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