The Validity of the MMSE and SMQ as Screening Tests for Dementia in the Elderly General Population – A Study of One Rural Community in Japan
| Autor: | Akihiko Nebu, Naruhiko Maki, Nobutsugu Hirono, Kazuhiko Hokoishi, Kenjiro Komori, Manabu Ikeda, Hirotaka Tanabe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Rural Population Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Psychometrics Cognitive Neuroscience Population Test validity Sampling Studies Statistics Nonparametric Japan Predictive Value of Tests Surveys and Questionnaires mental disorders medicine Humans Mass Screening Dementia Psychiatry education Aged Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study Mini–Mental State Examination medicine.diagnostic_test Discriminant validity Reproducibility of Results Neuropsychological test medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Memory Short-Term ROC Curve Predictive value of tests Female Geriatrics and Gerontology Mental Status Schedule Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 11:193-196 |
| ISSN: | 1421-9824 1420-8008 |
| DOI: | 10.1159/000017236 |
| Popis: | Objective: To compare the validity of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Short-Memory Questionnaire (SMQ) as screening tests to detect dementia in the elderly general population. Subjects: Six hundred and sixty-two subjects and their informants from the elderly general population sample who had completed these tests. Setting: One rural community survey in Japan. Method: We used receiver-operating characteristic analysis to compare the performance of the MMSE and the SMQ with the clinical diagnosis of dementia according to DSM-III-R. Results: The areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curve of the MMSE and the SMQ were 0.980 (SE = 0.006) and 0.982 (SE = 0.008), respectively. This differed from chance to a highly significant degree for both the MMSE and the SMQ, but the difference between the two scales was not statistically significant. Conclusion: As screening tests to detect dementia in the elderly general population, the SMQ which is assessed by informants demonstrates a statistically significant discriminating ability as well as the MMSE. |
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