This study aims to prospectively examine the memory problem perceptions of patients with memory complaints \[MCs\] and their accompaniers during the diagnostic process.
Through the french adaptation of the "illness perception questionnaire memory", this study aims to prospectively examine the memory problem perceptions of patients with memory complaints \[MCs\] and their accompaniers during the diagnostic process. The investigators plan to recruit 125 patients with MCs who come for the first time at the Research and Resources Memory Center in Nancy, France. Participants have to express MCs and must be free of dementia diagnosis at the first visit. Participants also need to be accompanied by an accompanier and both have to be fluent in French. This study has been approved by our local Ethics Committee (Committee for the Protection of Persons) and the French Health Security Agency. After giving their informed consent, patients and accompaniers are followed up throughout the diagnostic process with three visits : at their first visit, at one month after the first visit, and at six months after the diagnosis disclosure.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
250
Psychological questionnaires about memory problems perceptions, anxiety, depression, quality of life and coping
University Hospital of Nancy ,CHU Brabois, France
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
RECRUITINGMemory problems perceptions of patients and next of kin during diagnosis process
How patients and accompaniers perceive memory problems at the first visit in a Memory Center to 6 months after the diagnosis disclosure, with the Illness Perception Questionnaire Memory
Time frame: Baseline and 6 months after diagnosis disclosure
Psychometric properties of the french adaptation of the Ilness Perceptions Questionnaire - Memory (IPQ-M, Hurt et al. 2010)
Psychometric properties of IPQ-M by a traditional approach and by comparison to another french memory complaint questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline, 1 month later and 6 months after diagnosis disclosure
Impact of the memory problems perceptions on mood and well-being
Correlation between memory problems perceptions at the IPQ-M, levels of anxiety (STAI-Y), depression (MADRS), quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) and coping strategies.
Time frame: Baseline and 6 months after diagnosis disclosure
Differences of memory problems perceptions and coping according to level of cognitive disorder at the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
Time frame: Baseline and 6 months after diagnosis disclosure
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