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Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/46114 Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls Cassimjee, Nafisa Molamu, Phenyo Kgaugelo UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. There is a greater need to understand the neuropsychological profile of older HIV-infected individuals. Despite the inception of antiretroviral medication, milder forms of neuropsychological impairments appear to exist. Furthermore, the neuropsychological impairments seen in healthy older adults seem to have a similar pattern to those seen in HIV patients. The current exploratory study set out to compare the global and specific neuropsychological profiles of older HIV positive individuals (experimental group) to older HIV negative individuals (control group). The quasi-experimental design was employed to preliminarily assess for possible significant differences in the relevant neurocognitive domains. Participants were recruited by convenience sampling from a primary health care center in a semi-urban community. The neuropsychological battery used included the Dementia Rating Scale-2, Symbol Digit Modalities Test, Stroop Color and Word Test and the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System. The sample size used for data analysis was 50 (experimental group: n=33; control group: n=17).Mann-Whitney U tests were used to compare the groups, with the aid of the bootstrap resampling technique. Results indicated that the HIV positive group showed significantly poorer performance on measures of executive function, psychomotor processing, memory, visuo-spatial/constructional ability and global neurocognitive function. Future studies on the older HIV positive population should be conducted - with more detailed neuropsychological tests and larger samples. A better understanding of the neuropsychological profile of the older cohort may have possible treatment policy implications which will contribute to better health and quality of life outcomes. tm2015 Psychology MA Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:06:51Z 2015-07-02T11:06:51Z 2015/04/22 2014 Dissertation Molamu, PK 2014, Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46114> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46114 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls |
| title | Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls |
| title_full | Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls |
| title_fullStr | Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls |
| title_short | Neuropsychological Profiles of Older Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) : a comparison with controls |
| title_sort | neuropsychological profiles of older adults with human immunodeficiency virus hiv a comparison with controls |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46114 |