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. 2010 Jun;7(2):102-8.
doi: 10.4306/pi.2010.7.2.102. Epub 2010 Apr 6.

Korean version of mini mental status examination for dementia screening and its' short form

Tae Hui Kim  1 , Jin Hyeong Jhoo, Joon Hyuk Park, Jeong Lan Kim, Seung Ho Ryu, Seok Woo Moon, Il Han Choo, Dong Woo Lee, Jong Chul Yoon, Yeon Ja Do, Seok Bum Lee, Moon Doo Kim, Ki Woong Kim
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Korean version of mini mental status examination for dementia screening and its' short form

Tae Hui Kim et al. Psychiatry Investig. 2010 Jun.

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Abstract

Objective: We developed a Korean version of Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) optimized for screening dementia (MMSE-DS) and its' short form (SMMSE-DS).

Methods: We constructed the MMSE-DS using the items of the two current Korean versions of MMSE and then construct the SMMSE-DS consisted of 13 items from the MMSE-DS based on the diagnostic accuracy of individual items for dementia. We investigated reliability and validity of MMSE-DS and SMMSE-DS on 1,555 subjects (1,222 nondemented controls, 333 dementia patients). We compared the diagnostic accuracy of the SMMSE-DS with that of the three full Korean versions of MMSE, and examined its' age- and education-specific optimal cutoff scores for dementia.

Results: The internal consistency obtained by Cronbach's coefficient alpha was 0.826. The inter-rater reliability and test-retest reliability were 0.968 (p<0.001) and 0.825 (p<0.001), respectively. It showed significant correlation with the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) (r=-0.698, p<0.05) and the three full Korean versions of MMSE (r=0.839-0.938, p<0.001). The area under the receiver operator curve for dementia of the SMMSE-DS was larger than those of the three full Korean versions of MMSE (p<0.001). Age, education and gender explained 19.4% of the total variance of SMMSE-DS scores. The optimal cutoff scores for dementia of the SMMSE-DS were estimated differently by age and educational attainment of the subjects.

Conclusion: The SMMSE-DS was found to be accurate, brief and portable instrument for screening dementia in Korean elders, and may be particularly useful for screening dementia in elderly populations with wide variation in educational levels.

Keywords: Dementia; Korean; Mini-Mental Status Examination; Reliability; Short form; Validity.

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Comparison of areas under the receiver operator curve (AUC) of the short version of Mini-Mental Status Examination for dementia screen (SMMSE-DS) with those of the three full Korean versions of MMSE. *p<0.001. MMSE-KC: Korean version of MMSE in CERAD-K6, K-MMSE: Korean version of MMSE in the Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battey, CERAD-K: Korean version of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease Assessment Packet.
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