Correlation between the 37-Item Mental Test Score and Abbreviated 10-Item Mental Test Score by Psychogeriatric Day Patients

1987 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Thompson ◽  
G. Blessed
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Mental Impairment ◽  
Mental Test ◽  
Mental Test Score ◽  
Good For ◽  
Psychogeriatric Patients

Groups of organically and functionally mentally ill psychogeriatric day patients were assessed by the 37-item Roth-Hopkins test and the abbreviated ten-item Roth-Hopkins test. The scores correlated highly, correlation being equally good for both diagnostic groups. Among the functionally ill and the mild organically ill, scores improved between first and second test. The quicker, better tolerated ten-item test is a useful test of mental impairment for psychogeriatric patients in the community, as well as in institutional care.

scholarly journals How nurses' attire affects elderly psychiatric patients' ability to recognise them

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-238
Author(s):  
Hugh Joseph McCreedy ◽  
Peter William Bentham
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Patients ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Mental Test ◽  
Mental Test Score ◽  
Abbreviated Mental Test

The ability of elderly patients to identify a nurse wearing a uniform as opposed to mufti was investigated together with the effect of administrator attire on the Abbreviated Mental Test score (AMT). Thirty-six out of 71 patients identified a nurse wearing mufti increasing to 59/71 when wearing uniform (P < 0.005). Patients rated by a uniformed nurse had significantly higher mean AMT scores (6.1) than when rated by a nurse in mufti (5.6) (P < 0.01), and this also had a significant effect on the sensitivity in predicting an organic diagnosis.

Regional Density and Survival in Senile Dementia

1985 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Colgan
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Study ◽  
Ct Scan ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Senile Dementia ◽  
Alzheimer Type ◽  
Cognitive Measures ◽  
Mental Test ◽  
Mental Test Score ◽  
Senile Dementia Of The

SummaryComputed cranial tomography was performed on 48 patients with Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) who have since been followed up in a continuing prospective study. At six-months follow-up, ten patients had died; these did not differ significantly from the survivors either in mean age or duration of dementia, although the latter tended to have been shorter in the deceased. Despite having shorter histories, the deceased had performed worse on initial testing with several cognitive measures, and this was significant for the mental test score; this suggests some patients may have a more rapidly progressive form of SDAT. In a comparison between the CT scan of the deceased and survivors, the deceased were found to have significantly lower mean attenuation densities in the parietal, occipital, and left thalamic regions. The hypothesis that low attenuation density in the parietal regions of the CT scan in SDAT is associated with a more rapid demise is supported for the present period of follow-up.

scholarly journals 247THE ABBREVIATED MENTAL TEST SCORE: THE 1916 QUESTION

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (suppl 2) ◽  
pp. ii13.117-ii56
Author(s):  
Martin M O'Donnell ◽  
Niamh A O'Regan ◽  
David J Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Test Score ◽  
Mental Test ◽  
Mental Test Score ◽  
Abbreviated Mental Test

Validation of the Greek version of the Abbreviated Mental Test Score: Preliminary findings for cognitively impaired patients of different etiology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Dionysios Tafiadis ◽  
Nafsika Ziavra ◽  
Alexandra Prentza ◽  
Vassiliki Siafaka ◽  
Vasiliki Zarokanellou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Test Score ◽  
Cognitively Impaired ◽  
Greek Version ◽  
Mental Test ◽  
Mental Test Score ◽  
Abbreviated Mental Test
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