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P3‐132: The affect of dementia diagnosis and level of impairment on Spatial Span performance
Author(s) -
Wiechmann April R.,
Hall James R.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2010.05.1629
Subject(s) - memory span , dementia , clinical dementia rating , psychology , audiology , span (engineering) , analysis of variance , wechsler adult intelligence scale , affect (linguistics) , neuropsychology , spatial disorientation , spatial ability , cognitive impairment , cognition , medicine , working memory , disease , psychiatry , civil engineering , engineering , communication , simulation
and 10 patients with mild cognitive impairment and 10 patients with Alzheimer’s disease were recruited from August 2009 to October 2009. Cognitive functions, Geriatric Depression Scale, Activities of Daily Living were evaluated as face to face interview by protocol. After 2 weeks of initial assessment, K-mTICS were assessment by same interviewer. Results: We translated mTICS into Korean version, changing 10 word recall list, naming, sentence of repetition and opposite word, in regard to Korean culture and Korean word frequency list. The 10 word list were used from Literacy Independent Cognitive Assessment Test. Item of naming ‘‘How many things are in a dozen’’ were changed to ‘‘How many dried corvinas are in a string’’ and ‘‘What animal does wool come from’’ to "What insect does silk come from’’. Repetition of ‘‘No ifs, ands or buts’’ was changed to ‘‘Seeing is believing’’ from Korean proverb. Word of opposite was changed from ‘‘generous’’ to Korean ‘‘right’’. Mean age of subjects was 70.3 6 6.3 and mean education level was 6.5 6 4.9. Mean of K-MMSE was 24.2(64.5) and for K-mTICS was 33.4(68.6). The time required for assessment is 448.8677.2 seconds (7.4 min). The correlation between the K-MMSE and K-mTICS was very strong. (r 1⁄4 0.858, p < 0.001). Conclusions: We expect to use K-mTICS in the followings after developing the Korean version of the TICS with completion of validity and reliability study; 1) for screening community-based large population 2) clinical follow-up in longitudinal studies 3) observe progression of disease for follow-up loss patients 4) evaluate cognitive status in post-stroke patients.