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Performance of the Pentagon Drawing test for the screening of older adults with Alzheimer's dementia

Overview of attention for article published in Dementia & Neuropsychologia, March 2018
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Title
Performance of the Pentagon Drawing test for the screening of older adults with Alzheimer's dementia
Published in
Dementia & Neuropsychologia, March 2018
DOI 10.1590/1980-57642018dn12-010008
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José Eduardo Martinelli, Juliana Francisca Cecato, Marcos Oliveira Martinelli, Brian Alvarez Ribeiro de Melo, Ivan Aprahamian

Abstract

The Pentagon Drawing Test (PDT) is a common cognitive screening test. The aim of this study was to evaluate performance properties of a specific PDT scoring scale in older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy controls. A cross-sectional study of 390 elderly patients, aged 60 years or older with at least two years of education was conducted. All participants completed clinical and neuropsychological evaluations, including the Cambridge Cognitive Examination, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), and the Clock Drawing Test. All PDT were blindly scored with the scale of Bourke et al. PDT analyses of the binary score on the MMSE (0 or 1 point) did not discriminate AD from controls (p = 0.839). However, when PDT was analyzed using the Bourke et al. scale, the two groups could be distinguished (p <0.001). PDT was not affected by education, showed sensitivity of 85.5% and specificity of 66.9%, discriminated different clinical stages of dementia, and correlated with the other cognitive tests (p <0.001). A 1-point difference on the Bourke et al. scale was associated with an odds ratio of 3.46 for AD. PDT can be used as a cognitive screen for suspected cases of dementia, especially AD, irrespective of educational level.

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Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 30%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 20%
Professor 1 10%
Student > Master 1 10%
Researcher 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 4 40%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 20%
Computer Science 1 10%
Chemistry 1 10%
Unknown 2 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 April 2018.
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#4,838,109
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Outputs from Dementia & Neuropsychologia
#76
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#88,689
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Outputs of similar age from Dementia & Neuropsychologia
#3
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