Population-Based Norms for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Arab Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief screening instrument for detecting mild cognitive dysfunction, a precursor to many cognitive disorders, such as dementia, which have increased in prevalence globally. Qatar, a small high-income country, has the largest projected increase in dementia of any country in the Middle East. Yet no population-based norms for cognitive function are available to date.

Methods

As part of the first national cross-sectional study of mental health, a total of 395 Qatari and non-Qatari Arabs, 18-74 years of age, were evaluated face-to-face using the Arabic version of the original MoCA (version 7.1). We computed raw and demographically (gender, age in years, and four education categories) adjusted scores for the overall MoCA test

SUBMITTER: Amro I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11807847 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature