The main aim of the study is to validate factor structure Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) China’s older population using Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. validation process used exploratory analysis (EFA) determine number dimensions MMSE, confirmatory (CFA) confirm factorial and invariance conclude does not differ between young-old (aged 65 – 79) old-old 80 or older). results...

Aim of the study was to determine the rate of depression and anxiety in the patients with diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (DM), and also to determine the state of the congnitive functions in patients with Type 2 Diabetes mellitus compared with the control group. Study was designed as a epidemiological cross sectional study, sample consisted of 108 patients, 66 of the patients were diagnosed ...

I wish to respond to the remarks made by Olazarán and Bermejo in reference to the article ‘Should the Mini-Mental State Examination be retired?’. I must acknowledge that my arguments are based not only on my particular clinical experience (characterised by lack of time and a population with a low educational level) but also on other personal circumstances such as the fact that I created other s...

OBJECTIVE To derive population norms on the Malayalam adaptation of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (M-ACE) and the inclusive Malayalam mini mental state examination (M-MMSE). MATERIALS AND METHODS Education-stratified norms were obtained on randomly selected cognitively unimpaired community elders (n = 519). RESULTS Valid data on norms was available on 488 subjects (age 68.5 +/- 7.1 an...

BACKGROUND Brief cognitive screening measures are valuable tools for both research and clinical applications. The most widely used instrument, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), is limited in that it must be administered face-to-face, cannot be used in participants with visual or motor impairments, and is protected by copyright. Screening instruments such as the Telephone Interview for C...

Studies have found that age and education were associated with cognition in older adults. However, little is known how clinical factors (e.g. age of illness onset, length of hospital stay, type of antipsychotic medications, and duration of illness) are associated with cognitive functioning in patients with schizophrenia. This study aimed to examine the influence of socio-demographic and clinica...

OBJECTIVES Weight loss and malnutrition are frequent and serious complications of Alzheimer's disease. The aim of the present article was to describe the cognitive and behavioural characteristics of the test population within the frame of the PHRC REAL.FR cohort (for Réseau sur la Maladie d'Alzheimer Français), depending on their nutritional state, and to consider their evolution one year after...

To compare the diagnostic accuracies of the Revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale (HDS-R) and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) for Alzheimer's diseases (AD), we administered them simultaneously to 82 AD patients and 82 age- and sex-matched nondemented control subjects. The area under the receiver operator curve (AUC) for AD of the HDS-R (AUC(HDS-R)) and MMSE (AUC(MMSE)) were bigger than 0.90 ind...

This study was conducted to estimate screening performance of dementia screening tools including Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Mini-Cog, Clock Drawing Test (CDT) and Ascertain Dementia 8 questionnaire (AD8) for older adults. 2015 participants aged 65 years or more in eastern China were enrolled. 4 screening tests were administered and scored by specifically trained psychiatrists. We use...

Introduction. Many studies suggest that atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with an increased risk of functional decline and may contribute to the development dementia. It not known whether CHA 2 DS -VASc scale allows dementia in patients AF be predicted. To assess score can a predictor evaluated Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) questionnaire elderly fibrillation. Material methods. Th...