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P2‐453: COMPARING THE ABILITY OF PERFORMANCE‐BASED TASKS TO PREDICT REAL‐WORLD FUNCTIONING
Author(s) -
Cunningham Reanne,
Weakley Alyssa,
Schmitter-Edgecombe Maureen
Publication year - 2019
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.2019.06.2860
Subject(s) - activities of daily living , task (project management) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , everyday life , independent living , plan (archaeology) , ecological validity , outcome (game theory) , applied psychology , cognitive psychology , gerontology , computer science , cognition , medicine , engineering , geography , psychiatry , programming language , mathematics , systems engineering , archaeology , mathematical economics , law , political science
indicated that the recommended cut-off scores of 26 and 18 did not give acceptable specificities for detecting MCI (Sensitivity: 92%; specificity: 11) and dementia (Sensitivity: 92%; specificity: 55) respectively. The results may be related to the fact that some of the items were less culturally relevant to the Tanzanian population. Conclusions: Overall, the utility of K-MoCA for detecting MCI and dementia in this population was low due to less cultural relevance of some items. Modification to those items are recommended to improve its utility.