Cognitive Impairment and Anxiety in Older Adults: Characterizations in a High Southern Latitude Population
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objective. The study characterized the levels of anxiety and cognitive impairment of older people in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, exploring possible correlations between both phenomena. Methods. With a descriptive pilot design, 72 older people (60-87 years) residing in Punta Arenas were evaluated using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) tests to measure anxiety and cognitive impairment, respectively. Results. Women were found to have significantly higher BAI scores than men (9,0 vs 3,5; p = 0,025), without significant differences in MoCA by sex. BAI and MoCA total scores showed an inverse correlation. Those over 70 years of age had a greater probability of altered scores in BAI, and a non-significant trend in MoCA (OR: 2.43; p = 0.066). Men showed higher rates of cognitive deterioration than women, although without statistical significance. Conclusion. Those over 70 years of age showed a greater probability of altered anxiety and a non-significant trend toward greater cognitive deterioration. The results underscore the need for specific interventions to improve mental and cognitive health in this vulnerable population.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".