IS THE CAMBRIDGE COGNITIVE TEST (CAMCOG) A USEFUL TOOL TO PREDICT THE PATHOLOGICAL STATUS OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID IN PATIENTS. Screening Test s. Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). 12 (52). Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG). 8 (35). Middlesex Elderly Assessment of. A leading global provider of cognitive assessment software for use in: • Academic Research – Promoting products for use in Academic Research since
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J Clin Exp Neuropsychol ; However, a small difference was found for subjects with low tesh Table 4. There was no expressive range in the stability of the instrument for sex, age, schooling, or for the presence of dementia.
For the interpretation of values, trst criteria proposed by Landis and Kock 22 were taken into consideration: The ICC score was excellent for the set of items of the test and for the items of the subscales; it varied from “moderate” 0.
However, education and social class are highly correlated variables and when caamcog association with education is examined without adjusting for social class, attention and praxis are also found to be significantly related to education.
A research team examined the records of the subjects who would be treated and selected those who fulfilled the eligibility criteria. Rio de Janeiro, Neuropsychological batteries of tests are widely used to evaluate subjects who tested positive in the screening examinations.
Assessment of older people: It was applied on elders and retested at a mean interval of Different comprehensive evaluation instruments have been developed to assess cognitive dysfunctions in the field of neuropsychology, as it is the case with the CAMCOG-R; neuropsychological test batteries are made up of instruments utilized to fest several cognitive functions.
These findings corroborate those of Lindeboom et al.
One aspect has to do with the raters who, aware of the evaluation process in course, tend to proceed more rigorously than in everyday circumstances, which may provide for an overestimation of the reliability results. In the interrater reliability study, the minimum age of the subjects was 65 years; for this reason, it was not possible to test the items of the remote memory subscale suggested for subjects who were born after Arq Neuropsiquiatr ;59 Suppl 3: The cqmcog of the instrument demands training for the raters and the copyright is reserved by the Cambridge University Press.
Reliability of the Brazilian version of the Cambridge Cognitive Examination Revised CAMCOG-R
This finding can be partially explained by the czmcog that the punctuation of the items which constitute the subscale depends on tesy raters’ interpretation. Accepted 24 March The intraclass coefficient for the set of items and for the subscales varied from 0. Services on Demand Journal. The test-retest reliability was evaluated with a mean interval of The subscale means were similar in the two testings; a discreet difference was noticed camccog the “executive functions” subscale and in the MMSE.
Another source of variability which may risk the stability of an instrument is the change of the studied phenomenon. The Cambridge examination for mental disorders of the elderly. The high interrater reliability found in the present study suggests that, tst its complexity and the dependence on the raters’ evaluation of some items, the variability associated to the rater did not jeopardize the instrument’ reliability.
In the retests the agreement was nearly perfect for the set camcob items. The interrater reliability, which was evaluated using the ICC, proved to be high, varying from 0.
It has incorporated a few screening instruments for cognitive disturbances widely caamcog in epidemiological research, such as the Mini-Mental State Examination MMSE 6and 8 of the 10 items of the Hodgkinson Abbreviated Mental Test 7. There was no significant range in the stability of the instrument in sex, age, schooling, or the presence of dementia. The lack of a specific biological marker for the diagnosis of dementia in the clinical practice amplifies the vitality of this evaluation 2.
When evaluating the stability of an instrument, it is fundamental to guarantee that the variability of the results is not significantly determined by the range associated to the rater, which can occur due to the precarious standardization while applying it.
In general, the combination of brevity and breadth of the CAMCOG, along with its distributional properties, makes it an attractive neuropsychological test for use in the community or the clinic.
Caution must therefore be taken when using the CAMCOG or any other cognitive test as a screening test for dementia, using a single, predetermined cutpoint. The testing took place in a reserved room, well lit, with little external noise, and with no visible calendars tesr clocks.
The Cronbach’ alpha of the set of items of the test was high 0. Arch Clin Neuropsychol ; How to cite this article.
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Validation of a short cognitive tool for the screening of dementia in elderly people with low camog level. The data suggest that the studied phenomenon – cognition – was kept stable during the period of time in which it was studied.
The patient’ schooling was defined as completed years of school in the formal educational system as informed by the subject failed school years were not taken into consideration.
The high reliability of the test-retest found in the present study suggests that the instrument has an excellent level of stability with time, for both the set of items in the test and for the majority of the items in the subscales. RESULTS One hundred and twenty-three subjects took part in the test-retest study, while 60 of them participated in the interrater reliability study as well. The ten point clock test: In all these analyses, the results were adjusted for the effects of the other socio-demographic variables using analysis of variance.
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