Utility of the Malayalam translation of the 7- minute screen for Alzheimer's disease risk in an Indian community

Neurology India

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-166

  De Jager, Celeste ^a,f   Thambisetty, Madhav ^b   Praveen, K ^c   Sheeba, P ^c   Ajini, K ^c   Sajeev, A ^c   Smitha, K ^c   Rahmathulla, L ^c   Ramakrishna, T ^d,e   David, Smith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT   (India)

^d BANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e M S RAMAIAH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^f JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognitive impairment; Elderly; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; RECALL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; STUDENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; TRANSLATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 47949089563     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.41994     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Population ageing: A looming public health challenge. Health Millions 1998;24:20-2.
2. Wimo A, Winblad B, Aguero-Torres H, von Strauss E. The magnitude of dementia occurrence in the world. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 2003;17:63-7.
3. Prince M, Graham N, Brodaty H, Rimmer E, Varghese M, Chiu H, et al. Alzheimer Disease International's 10/66 Dementia Research Group - one model for action research in developing countries. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2004;19:178-81.
4. Mathuranath PS, Hodges JR, Mathew R, Cherian PJ, George A, Bak TH. Adaptation of the ACE for a Malayalam speaking population in southern India. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2004;19:1188-94.
5. Ganguli M, Dube S, Johnston JM, Pandav R, Chandra V, Dodge HH. Depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment and functional impairment in a rural elderly population in India: A Hindi version of the geriatric depression scale (GDS-H). Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 1999;14: 807-20.
6. Mungas D, Marshall SC, Weldon M, Haan M, Reed BR. Age and education correction of Mini-Mental State Examination for English and Spanish-speaking elderly. Neurology 1996;46:700-6.
7. Murden RA, McRae TD, Kaner S, Bucknam ME. Mini-Mental State exam scores vary with education in blacks and whites. J Am Geriatr Soc 1991;39:149-55.
8. Rait G, Morley M, Burns A, Baldwin R, Chew-Graham C, St Leger AS. Screening for cognitive impairment in older African-Caribbeans. Psychol Med 2000;30:957-63.
9. Rakusa M, Granda G, Kogoj A, Mlakar J, Vodusek DB. Mini-Mental State Examination: Standardization and validation for the elderly Slovenian population. Eur J Neurol 2006;13:141-5.
10. Solomon PR, Hirschoff A, Kelly B, Relin M, Brush M, DeVeaux RD, et al. A 7 minute neurocognitive screening battery highly sensitive to Alzheimer's disease. Arch Neurol 1998;55:349-55.
11. Tsolaki M, Iakovidou V, Papadopoulou E, Aminta M, Nakopoulou E, Pantazi T, et al. Greek validation of the seven-minute screening battery for Alzheimer's disease in the elderly. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen 2002;17:139-48.
12. Kálmán J, Boda K, Bende Z, Janka Z. Screening for dementia syndromes: The Hungarian experience with the 7-Minute-Test. Orv Hetil 2003;144:1929-38.
13. Meulen EF, Schmand B, van Campen JP, de Koning SJ, Ponds RW, Scheltens P, et al. The seven minute screen: A neurocognitive screening test highly sensitive to various types of dementia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004;75:700-5.
14. Lawrence J, Davidoff D, Katt-Lloyd D, Auerbach M, Hennen J. A pilot program of improved methods for community-based screening for dementia. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2001;9:205-11.
15. Lawrence JM, Davidoff DA, Katt-Lloyd D, Connell A, Berlow YA, Savoie JA. Is large-scale community memory screening feasible? Experience from a regional memory-screening day. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003;51:1072-8.
16. Benton AL. Contributions to neuropsychological assessment. New York: Oxford University Press; 1983.
17. Grober E, Buschke H, Crystal H, Bang S, Dresner R. Screening for dementia by memory testing. Neurology 1988;38:900-3.
18. Wolf-Klein GP, Silverstone FA, Levy AP, Brod MS. Screening for Alzheimer's disease by clock drawing. J Am Geriatr Soc 1989;37:730-4.
19. Monsch AU, Bondi MW, Butters N, Salmon DP, Katzman R, Thal LJ. Comparisons of verbal fluency tasks in the detection of dementia of the Alzheimer type. Arch Neurol 1992;49:1253-8.
20. Brodaty H, Moore CM. The Clock Drawing Test for dementia of the Alzheimer's type: A comparison of three scoring methods in a memory disorders clinic. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 1997;12:619-27.
21. Lin KN, Wang PN, Chen C, Chiu YH, Kuo CC, Chuang YY, et al. The three-item clock-drawing test: A simplified screening test for Alzheimer's disease. Eur Neurol 2003;49:53-8.
22. Knopman DS, Ryberg S. A verbal memory test with high predictive accuracy for dementia of the Alzheimer type. Arch Neurol 1989;46:141-5.
23. Henry JD, Crawford JR, Phillips LH. Verbal fluency performance in dementia of the Alzheimer's type: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychologia 2004;42:1212-22.
24. Grober E, Kawas C. Learning and retention in preclinical and early Alzheimer's disease. Psychol Aging 1997;12:183-8.
25. Vogel A, Mortensen EL, Gade A, Waldemar G. The Category Cued Recall test in very mild Alzheimer's disease: Discriminative validity and correlation with semantic memory functions. Eur J Neurol 2007;14:102-8.
26. Solomon PR, Pendlebury WW. Recognition of Alzheimer's disease: The 7 Minute Screen. Fam Med 1998;30:265-71.
27. Ivanoiu A, Adam S, Van der Linden M, Salmon E, Juillerat AC, Mulligan R, et al. Memory evaluation with a new cued recall test in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol 2005;252:47-55.
28. Robert PH, Schuck S, Dubois B, Olié JP, Lépine JP, Gallarda T, et al. Screening for Alzheimer's disease with the short cognitive evaluation battery. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2003;15:92-8.
29. Solomon PR, Brush M, Calvo V, Adams F, DeVeaux RD, Pendlebury WW, et al. Identifying dementia in the primary-care practice. Int Psychogeriatr 2000b;12:483-93.
30. de Silva HA, Gunatilake SB. Mini Mental State Examination in Sinhalese: A sensitive test to screen for dementia in Sri Lanka. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002;17:134-9.
31. Ratcliff G, Ganguli M, Chandra V, Sharma S, Belle S, Seaberg E, et al. Effects of literacy and education on measures of word fluency. Brain Lang 1998;61:115-22.
32. Mathuranath PS, Cherian JP, Mathew R, George A, Alexander A, Sarma SP. Mini Mental State Examination and the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination: Effect of education and norms for a multicultural population. Neurol India 2007;55:106-10.
33. Iype T, Ajitha BK, Antony P, Ajeeth NB, Job S, Shaji KS. Usefulness of the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment scale in South India. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2006;77:513-4.