Examining the Validity and Utility of Montreal Cognitive Assessment Domain Scores for Early Neurocognitive Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) total scores have been widely used to identify individuals with neurocognitive disorders (NCDs), but the utility of its domain-specific scores have yet to be thoroughly interrogated. This study aimed to validate MoCA's 6 domain-specific scores (ie, Memory, Language, Attention, Executive, Visuospatial, and Orientation) with conventional neuropsychological tests and explore whether MoCA domain scores could discriminate between different etiologies in early NCDs.

Design

Baseline data of a cohort study.

Setting and participants

Study included 14,571 participants recruited from Alzheimer's Disease Centers across United States, aged ≥50 years, with global Clinical Dementia Rating of ≤1, and mean age of 71.8 ± 8.9 years.

Met

SUBMITTER: Ang LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10123003 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature