Influencing factors and potential profile analysis of anxiety in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment
ZHANG Xi
WANG Chunxia
GUO Fangfang
GONG Xiaojiao
ZOU Ziying
ZHAN Na
Abstract：Objective To explore the potential categories and different categories of influencing factors of anxiety symptoms in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment(MCI).Methods The general data questionnaire,Hamilton Anxiety Scale and Monteria Cognitive Assessment Scale were used to conduct a cross-sectional investigation among 283 patients in a tertiary Class A hospital in Jiangxi Province.Latent profile analysis and multinomial Logistic regression analysis were used to explore the potential categories and influencing factors of anx-iety in elderly patients with MCI.Results The anxiety symptoms of elderly patients with MCI could be divided into three categories:low anxi-ety-cognitive disorder group(40.99%),medium mental anxiety group(40.28%)and high mental anxiety group(18.73%).Logistic regres-sion analysis showed that the number of chronic diseases,self-rated hearing loss and cognitive function were the influencing factors of MCl in the elderly(P＜0.05).Conclusion There is heterogeneity of anxiety symptoms in elderly patients with MCI.It is suggested that we should implement targeted intervention according to different categories of anxiety.
Keywords：the elderlymild cognitive impairmentanxietynursinglatent profile analysis
Publication Date：2025-02-10
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 116-120 )