KMID : 0384320020230060728
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Korean Journal of Family Medicine 2002 Volume.23 No. 6 p.728 ~ p.739
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A Validation Study of a Korean Version of the 7-minute Screen Test
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Park Min-Seon
Cho Be-long Yang Dong-Won Kim Sang-Yun
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Abstract
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Background: To assess the validity of a recently developed Korean version of the 7-minute screen (7MSK) consisting of 4 brief tests such as Benton temporal orientation, enhanced cured recall, clock drawing and category fluency to distinguish between patients with probable or possible Alzheimer¡¯s disease (AD), vascular dementia (VD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and healthy control subjects.
Methods: From March 2001 to February 2002, the 7MSK and K-MMSE was administered to the 105 patients, who were diagnosed as having probable or possible AD, vascular dementia or MCI with successive referrals to two memory disorder & dementia clinics in Seoul, and to 311 healthy control subjects who were not excluded for normal elderly by health screen criteria. We determined inter-group comparison between patients with dementia and the controls on the 4 individual tests and the probability of dementia for patients with AD, VD and MCI.
Results: Mean scores for the patients with AD, VD and MCI and the control subjects on all 4 individual tests were significantly different (for each, P<0.001). When the 4 tests were combined in a logistic regression after adjusting for age
and education level, the battery had a sensitivity of 89% and a specificity of 90% with an optimal cut-off point of the predicted probability of 0.15. The 7MSK was equally sensitive in patients with mild AD or VD.
Conclusions: The 7MSK has a high validity for diagnosis of AD, VD or MCI. It may be a useful tool for early dementia screening.
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KEYWORD
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dementia screening, primary care, Korean version of 7 MS
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