Consequences of age and education correction of cognitive screening tests - A simulation study of the MoCA test in Italy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cognitive screening tools are widely used in clinical practice to screen for age-related cognitive impairment and dementia. These tools' test scores are known to be influenced by age and education, leading to routine correction of raw scores for these factors. Despite these corrections being common practice, there is evidence suggesting that corrected scores may perform worse in terms of discrimination than raw scores.

Objective

To address the ongoing debate in the field of dementia research, we assessed the impact of the corrections on discrimination, specificity, and sensitivity of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test in Italy, both for the overall population and across age and education strata.

Methodology

We created a realistic model of the resident p

SUBMITTER: Wischmann HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11554764 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature