Cutoff scores for the "Interest game", an application for the assessment of diminished interest in neurocognitive disorders.

ABSTRACT: Diminished interest is a core feature of apathy that shows high prevalence in people with Mild and Major Neurocognitive disorders (NCD). In the clinical setting, apathy is mainly assessed using clinical scales and questionnaires, but new technologies are starting to be employed to complement classical instruments. Here, we explored the performance of the "Interest game," a ludic application that assesses personal interests, in discriminating between persons with and without diminished interest based on the Apathy Diagnostic Criteria. Two hundred and twenty-seven elderly participants (56 healthy controls, 118 persons with mild-NCD, and 53 with major-NCD) completed the Interest game and were assessed by clinicians concerning the presence and the severity of apathy. Results showed that the ap

SUBMITTER: Manera V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10067876 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature