Differential item functioning related to education and age in the Italian version of the Mini-mental State Examination

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 505-515

  Crane, Paul K ^a   Gibbons, Laura E ^a   Jolley, Lance ^b   Van Belle, Gerald ^c   Selleri, Ricardo ^d   Dalmonte, Edoardo ^e   De Ronchi, Diana ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e Unit of Geriatric Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive functioning; Dementia; Ordinal logistic regression; Screening tests; Test bias; Two stage sampling design (epidemiology)

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33746454690     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610205002978     Document Type: Article

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