Freidl W, Schmidt R, Stronegger W J, Fazekas F, Reinhart B
Institute of Social Medicine, University of Graz, Austria.
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1996;246(6):317-9. doi: 10.1007/BF02189025.
The Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale (MDRS) are among the most commonly used screening tests for dementia. The goals of our study were, firstly, to identify sociodemographic factors which may explain the variance of test results in a community sample and, secondly, to investigate the interrelationship of these two dementia screening tests in order to evaluate the concurrent validity. A total of 1947 subjects were investigated in the setting of the Austrian Stroke Prevention Study (ASPS). Our study confirms most previous results demonstrating a relationship of higher dementia test scores with both younger age and higher educational level. Interestingly, the results we obtained suggest only a weak relationship and poor concurrent validity of the two tests. The total scores of the two tests show poor joint variance. This could lead to the conclusion that these tests evaluate different cognitive domains.
简易精神状态检查表（MMSE）和马蒂斯痴呆评定量表（MDRS）是最常用的痴呆筛查测试。我们研究的目的，首先是确定社会人口学因素，这些因素可能解释社区样本中测试结果的差异，其次是研究这两种痴呆筛查测试的相互关系，以评估同时效度。在奥地利中风预防研究（ASPS）中，共对1947名受试者进行了调查。我们的研究证实了之前的大多数结果，即痴呆测试得分较高与较年轻的年龄和较高的教育水平都有关系。有趣的是，我们获得的结果表明这两种测试之间的关系较弱且同时效度较差。两种测试的总分显示出较差的共同方差。这可能导致得出结论，即这些测试评估的是不同的认知领域。
