Identifying Cognitive Impairment Among Older Participants in a Nationally Representative Internet Panel.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Health and Retirement Study Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (HRS TICS) score and its associated Langa-Weir cutoffs are widely used as indicators of cognitive status for research purposes in population-based studies. The classification is based on in-person and phone interviews of older individuals. Our purpose was to develop a corresponding classification for web-based self-administered assessments.

Methods

Participants were 925 members of a nationally representative internet panel, all aged 50 and older. We conducted (a) a phone interview comprised of cognitive items used to construct the HRS TICS score, and (b) a web counterpart with self-administered cognitive items, while also considering (c) other already administered web-based cognitive tests an

SUBMITTER: Gatz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9938921 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature