Reynolds Section of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 Oct;69(10):2741-2744. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17318. Epub 2021 Jun 17.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing D-CARE pragmatic trial of two models of dementia care management needed to transition to all data collection by telephone.
For the first 1069 D-CARE participants, we determined the feasibility of administering a short 3-item version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to persons with dementia by telephone and examined the correlation with the full 12-item version.
The 3-item version could be administered by telephone in approximately 6 min and was highly correlated with the full MoCA (r = 0.78, p < 0.0001).
This brief version of the MoCA was feasible to collect by telephone and could be used as an alternative to the full MoCA, particularly if the purpose of cognitive assessment is characterization of study participants.
由于 COVID-19 大流行，正在进行的 D-CARE 实用主义痴呆症护理管理两种模式试验需要过渡到所有数据都通过电话收集。
对于前 1069 名 D-CARE 参与者，我们确定了通过电话向痴呆症患者管理短的 3 项蒙特利尔认知评估（MoCA）的可行性，并检查了与完整的 12 项 MoCA 的相关性。
3 项版本可以通过电话在大约 6 分钟内完成，并且与完整的 MoCA 高度相关（r=0.78，p<0.0001）。
MoCA 的这个简短版本可以通过电话收集，并且可以用作完整 MoCA 的替代方法，特别是如果认知评估的目的是描述研究参与者的特征。
