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Validity of the Short-Memory Questionnaire in vascular dementia
Author(s)	Naruhiko Maki, Manabu Ikeda, Kazuhiko Hokoishi
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 12, December 2000
Pages	pp 1143-1146
Keywords	Memory and Reminiscence ; Dementia ; Memory disorders ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Informal care ; Japan.
Annotation	58 Japanese patients with vascular dementia (VaD), 26 with cerebrovascular disorders free of cognitive deficit (CVD), and 62 healthy controls received the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and their primary caregivers (or family members with same household) received the Short-Memory Questionnaire (SMQ). In the VaD patients, the SMQ score was highly correlated with the MMSE score. When 39/40 was defined as a cutoff point based on the results of previous study, the SMQ properly classified 55 of the 58 VaD patients, and 61 of the 62 controls, but only about half of the 26 CVD patients as cases. The SMQ, a simple quantitative rating test for memory disturbance, is useful for the assessment and screening of VaD patients as well as Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients; however, careful attention should be paid to the assessment of CVD patients. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010227206 A
Classmark	DB: EA: EH: DA: 4C: P6: 7DT
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