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Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
2009
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- The performance of the Mini-Cog in a sample of low educational level elderly Sergio Telles Ribeiro Filho Roberto Alves Lourenço Medicina aging dementia validity neuropsychology ambulatory care Studying the criterion validity of the Mini -Cog in the elderly with low educational level . Design : Cross-sectional and validation . Scenario : Polyclinic Piquet Carneiro , one unidad de la Outpatient Hospital , State University of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. Participants: A convenience sample consisting of 306 individuals , 65 years or older , selected between April 8 and July 15, 2002 . Methods : All patients underwent a comprehensive geriatric assessment , which included the Mini - Mental State Examination ( MMSE ) and the cognitive part of the Cambridge Examination for Mental Disorders of the Elderly - Revised ( CAMCOG -R ) , and were classified according to their condition or not with dementia (DSM -IV). An analysis was made post - hoc data of the three-word recall test included the MMSE and the Clock Drawing Test , included in the CAMCOG -R . The results of each test were grouped and interpreted in accordance with the protocol of the Mini -Cog . Results: 293 subjects completed all phases of the study , and 211 had four or fewer years of schooling and had their data analyzed , 32% had dementia . The sensitivity and specificity of the Mini -Cog were consistently low , regardless of the cutoff point . The best performance at a cutoff of 2/3 , reported sensitivity and specificity of 60 % and 65 % , respectively. Conclusion : The Mini -Cog is not a good tool for cognitive screening people at least five years of education 2009 artículo científico 1980-5764 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=339529013003 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3395 Dementia & Neuropsychologia application/pdf Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento Dementia & Neuropsychologia (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.3