TY - JOUR
T1 - Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status
T2 - Creating a crosswalk with the Mini-Mental State Examination
AU - Fong, Tamara G.
AU - Fearing, Michael A.
AU - Jones, Richard N.
AU - Shi, Peilin
AU - Marcantonio, Edward R.
AU - Rudolph, James L.
AU - Yang, Frances M.
AU - Kiely, Dan K.
AU - Inouye, Sharon K.
N1 - Funding Information:
The study included 746 community-dwelling elders who were participants in ADAMS. The ADAMS is a supplement to the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), funded by the National Institutes of Aging, with the specific aim of conducting a population-based study of dementia. The rationale, design, recruitment, and site characteristics of ADAMS are described in detail elsewhere [15] .
Funding Information:
This study was funded in part by grants R21AG025193 and K24AG00949 from the National Institute on Aging, and the Aging Brain Center, Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life. T.G.F. was funded by grant K23 AG 031320 and M.A.F. was funded by grant T32 AG023480 from the National Institute on Aging. S.K.I. holds the Milton and Shirley F. Levy Family Chair.
PY - 2009/11
Y1 - 2009/11
N2 - 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 Cognitive Status (TICS) were developed to provide a valid alternative, with comparable cut-point scores to rate global cognitive function. Methods: The MMSE, TICS-30, and TICS-40 scores from 746 community-dwelling elders who participated in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS) were analyzed with equipercentile equating, a statistical process of determining comparable scores based on percentile equivalents for different forms of an examination. Results: Scores from the MMSE and TICS-30 and TICS-40 corresponded well, and clinically relevant cut-point scores were determined. For example, an MMSE score of 23 is equivalent to 17 and 20 on the TICS-30 and TICS-40, respectively. Conclusions: These findings indicate that TICS and MMSE scores can be linked directly. Clinically relevant and important MMSE cut points and the respective ADAMS TICS-30 and TICS-40 cut-point scores are included, to identify the degree of cognitive impairment among respondents with any type of cognitive disorder. These results will help in the widespread application of TICS in both research and clinical practice.
AB - 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 Cognitive Status (TICS) were developed to provide a valid alternative, with comparable cut-point scores to rate global cognitive function. Methods: The MMSE, TICS-30, and TICS-40 scores from 746 community-dwelling elders who participated in the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS) were analyzed with equipercentile equating, a statistical process of determining comparable scores based on percentile equivalents for different forms of an examination. Results: Scores from the MMSE and TICS-30 and TICS-40 corresponded well, and clinically relevant cut-point scores were determined. For example, an MMSE score of 23 is equivalent to 17 and 20 on the TICS-30 and TICS-40, respectively. Conclusions: These findings indicate that TICS and MMSE scores can be linked directly. Clinically relevant and important MMSE cut points and the respective ADAMS TICS-30 and TICS-40 cut-point scores are included, to identify the degree of cognitive impairment among respondents with any type of cognitive disorder. These results will help in the widespread application of TICS in both research and clinical practice.
KW - Cognitive screening measures
KW - Dementia instruments
KW - Mini-Mental State Examination
KW - Telephone Inventory for Cognitive Status
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jalz.2009.02.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jalz.2009.02.007
M3 - Article
C2 - 19647495
AN - SCOPUS:71549120347
SN - 1552-5260
VL - 5
SP - 492
EP - 497
JO - Alzheimer's and Dementia
JF - Alzheimer's and Dementia
IS - 6
ER -