Psychometric properties of the folstein mini-mental state examination

被引：117

作者：

Lopez, M ^{[1
]}

Charter, R ^{[1
]}

Mostafavi, B ^{[1
]}

Nibut, L ^{[1
]}

Smith, W ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Vet Affairs Healthcare Syst, MH Grp, Behav Hlth Sect 06 116B, Long Beach, CA 90822 USA

来源：

ASSESSMENT | 2005年 / 12卷 / 02期

关键词：

Mini-Mental State Examination; reliability; item analysis; factor analysis; psychometric; geriatric patients; cognitive assessment;

D O I：

10.1177/1073191105275412

中图分类号：

B849 [应用心理学];

学科分类号：

040203 ;

摘要：

Criterion-referenced (Livingston) and norm-referenced (Gilmer-Feldt) techniques were used to measure the internal consistency reliability of Folstein's Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) on a large sample (N = 418) of elderly medical patients. Two administration and scoring variants of the MMSE Attention and Calculation section (Serial 7s only and WORLD only) were investigated. Livingston reliability coefficients (rs) were calculated for a wide range of cutoff scores. As necessary for the calculation of the Gilmer-Feldt r, a factor analysis showed that the MMSE measures three cognitive domains. Livingston's r for the most widely used MMSE cutoff score of 24 was .803 for Serial 7s and .795 for WORLD. The Gilmer-Feldt internal consistency reliability coefficient was .764 for Serial 7s and .747 for WORLD. Item analysis showed that nearly all of the MMSE items were good discriminators, but 12 were too easy. True score confidence intervals should be applied when interpreting MMSE test scores.

引用

页码：137 / 144

页数：8

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