A total of 107 institutionalized elderly individuals were interviewed.
The methodological framework consists of five successive stages: (1) problem framing and stakeholder analysis, (2) process design, (3) individual modeling, (4) group model building, and (5) institutionalized participatory modeling.
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Results revealed no significant intergroup differences in mean GDS scores at follow-up (day care, 3.85±0.89; institutionalized, 3.83±1.23).
Again, both groups showed comparable global cognitive impairment at follow-up (day-care: 17.20±5.63, range 5 28; institutionalized: 17.52±6.40, range 9 30).
For both community-dwelling and institutionalized populations the association between SRGH and lived health scores (community dwelling: rS = 0.33, institutionalized: rS = 0.36) was higher than the association between SRGH and biological health scores (community dwelling: rS = 0.23, institutionalized: rS = 0.30).
Of the 23 institutionalized patients, 13.0% had no formal education, and 87.0% had primary to university education.
The study population consisted of 760 institutionalized elderly individuals, distributed as follows: 254 (33.4%) in Rio de Janeiro, 193 (25.4%) in Juiz de Fora, 153 (20.1%) in Campo Grande and 160 (21.1%) in Cuiabá.
As can be seen in Table 2, no significant differences between the groups were observed at baseline as assessed by mean scores on the GDS (day care, 3.60±1.08; institutionalized, 3.52±1.12).
Notably, as can be seen in Table 2, both groups showed comparable baseline cognitive impairment as assessed by mean MMSE total scores after correcting for age and education level (day-care: 18.55±5.84, range 7 29; institutionalized: 19.00±5.30, range 11 30).
