• Mônica Sanches Yassuda, Mariana Kneese Flaks, Luciane Fátima Viola, Fernanda Speggiorin Pereira, Claudia Maia Memória, Paula Villela Nunes, and Orestes Vicente Forlenza.
• Gerontology Department, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, EACH, University of São Paulo. yassuda@usp.br [corrected]
• Int Psychogeriatr. 2010 Sep 1; 22 (6): 1003-11.

BackgroundThe Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT) assesses everyday memory by means of tasks which mimic daily challenges. The objective was to examine the validity of the Brazilian version of the RBMT to detect cognitive decline.Methods195 older adults were diagnosed as normal controls (NC) or with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer's disease (AD) by a multidisciplinary team, after participants completed clinical and neuropsychological protocols.ResultsCronbach's alpha was high for the total sample for the RBMT profile (PS) and screening scores (SS) (PS = 0.91, SS = 0.87) and for the AD group (PS = 0.84, SS = 0.85), and moderate for the MCI (PS = 0.62, SS = 0.55) and NC (PS = 0.62, SS = 0.60) groups. RBMT total scores, Appointment, Pictures, Immediate and Delayed Story, Immediate and Delayed Route, Delayed Message and Date contributed to differentiate NC from MCI. ROC curve analyses indicated high accuracy to differentiate NC from AD patients, and, moderate accuracy to differentiate NC from MCI.ConclusionsThe Brazilian version of the RBMT seems to be an appropriate instrument to identify memory decline in Brazilian older adults.

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