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A Comparison of Test-Retest Reliability and Practice Effects of Short Portable Mental State Questionnaire and
Ta-Cheng Chen1, Ya-Chen Lee2, Yi-Ching Wang3
1Department of Neurology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan.
Objective:
To compare the test-retest reliabilities and minimal detectable change (MDC) of the Short Portable Mental State Questionnaire (SPMSQ) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in patients with stroke.
Methods:
63 patients were recruited from 1 medical center. The SPMSQ and MoCA were administered twice, 2 weeks apart.
Results:
Both measures showed high intraclass correlation coefficients (SPMSQ: 0.87; MoCA: 0.89) and acceptable MDC%s (SPMSQ: 14.8%; MoCA: 19.6%). A small correlation (r = 0.30) was found between the absolute difference and average in each pair of assessments in the SPMSQ, which was close to the criterion of heteroscedasticity. A small practice effect was observed in the MoCA (Cohen's d = 0.30).
Conclusion:
The SPMSQ demonstrated smaller random measurement error and an absence of practice effect. When comparing the psychometric properties of the SPMSQ and MoCA as outcome measures for assessing cognitive function in patients with stroke, the SPMSQ appears to be a more suitable choice than the MoCA.
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