Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments
The decline of cognitive function in old age is a great challenge for modern society. The simultaneous increase in dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases justifies a growing need for accurate and valid cognitive assessment instruments. Although in-person testing is considered the most effecti...
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| author | Teresa Costa Castanho Teresa Costa Castanho Liliana eAmorim Liliana eAmorim Joseph eZihl Joana Almeida Palha Joana Almeida Palha Nuno eSousa Nuno eSousa Nadine Correia Santos Nadine Correia Santos |
| author_facet | Teresa Costa Castanho Teresa Costa Castanho Liliana eAmorim Liliana eAmorim Joseph eZihl Joana Almeida Palha Joana Almeida Palha Nuno eSousa Nuno eSousa Nadine Correia Santos Nadine Correia Santos |
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| description | The decline of cognitive function in old age is a great challenge for modern society. The simultaneous increase in dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases justifies a growing need for accurate and valid cognitive assessment instruments. Although in-person testing is considered the most effective and preferred administration mode of assessment, it can pose not only a research difficulty in reaching large and diverse population samples, but it may also limit the assessment and follow-up of individuals with either physical or health limitations or reduced motivation. Therefore, telephone-based cognitive screening instruments pose an alternative and attractive strategy to in-person assessments. In order to give a current view of the state of the art of telephone-based tools for cognitive assessment in aging, this review highlights some of the existing instruments with particular focus on data validation, cognitive domains assessed, administration time and instrument limitations and advantages. From the review of the literature, performed using the databases EBSCO, Science Direct and PubMed, it was possible to verify that while telephone-based tools are useful in research and clinical practice, providing a promising approach, the methodologies still need refinement in the validation steps, including comparison with either single instruments or neurocognitive test batteries, to improve specificity and sensitivity to validly detect subtle changes in cognition that may precede cognitive impairment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-600cb03545c149209e9b61957c29210c2022-12-21T17:32:19ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience1663-43652014-02-01610.3389/fnagi.2014.0001673758Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instrumentsTeresa Costa Castanho0Teresa Costa Castanho1Liliana eAmorim2Liliana eAmorim3Joseph eZihl4Joana Almeida Palha5Joana Almeida Palha6Nuno eSousa7Nuno eSousa8Nadine Correia Santos9Nadine Correia Santos10University of MinhoICVS/3B’s PT Government Associate LaboratoryUniversity of MinhoICVS/3B’s PT Government Associate LaboratoryUniversity of MunichUniversity of MinhoICVS/3B’s PT Government Associate LaboratoryUniversity of MinhoICVS/3B’s PT Government Associate LaboratoryUniversity of MinhoICVS/3B’s PT Government Associate LaboratoryThe decline of cognitive function in old age is a great challenge for modern society. The simultaneous increase in dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases justifies a growing need for accurate and valid cognitive assessment instruments. Although in-person testing is considered the most effective and preferred administration mode of assessment, it can pose not only a research difficulty in reaching large and diverse population samples, but it may also limit the assessment and follow-up of individuals with either physical or health limitations or reduced motivation. Therefore, telephone-based cognitive screening instruments pose an alternative and attractive strategy to in-person assessments. In order to give a current view of the state of the art of telephone-based tools for cognitive assessment in aging, this review highlights some of the existing instruments with particular focus on data validation, cognitive domains assessed, administration time and instrument limitations and advantages. From the review of the literature, performed using the databases EBSCO, Science Direct and PubMed, it was possible to verify that while telephone-based tools are useful in research and clinical practice, providing a promising approach, the methodologies still need refinement in the validation steps, including comparison with either single instruments or neurocognitive test batteries, to improve specificity and sensitivity to validly detect subtle changes in cognition that may precede cognitive impairment.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00016/fullCognitionDementiaEarly detectionneurocognitive impairmentrapid-assessment toolstelephone-based screening |
| spellingShingle | Teresa Costa Castanho Teresa Costa Castanho Liliana eAmorim Liliana eAmorim Joseph eZihl Joana Almeida Palha Joana Almeida Palha Nuno eSousa Nuno eSousa Nadine Correia Santos Nadine Correia Santos Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Cognition Dementia Early detection neurocognitive impairment rapid-assessment tools telephone-based screening |
| title | Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments |
| title_full | Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments |
| title_fullStr | Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments |
| title_short | Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments |
| title_sort | telephone based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies a review of validated instruments |
| topic | Cognition Dementia Early detection neurocognitive impairment rapid-assessment tools telephone-based screening |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00016/full |
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