Validation Study of the Chinese Version of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III for Diagnosing Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia
10.3988/jcn.2019.15.3.313
- Author:
Xiaojia LI
1
;
Lili YANG
;
Jia YIN
;
Nengwei YU
;
Fang YE
Author Information
1. Department of Neurology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China. yfxh00@163.com
- Publication Type:Validation Studies
- Keywords:
validation studies;
Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III;
Chinese;
dementia;
mild cognitive impairment
- MeSH:
Area Under Curve;
Asian Continental Ancestry Group;
Dementia;
Education;
Humans;
Mass Screening;
Methylenebis(chloroaniline);
Mild Cognitive Impairment;
ROC Curve;
Sensitivity and Specificity
- From:Journal of Clinical Neurology
2019;15(3):313-320
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There are only a few cognitive screening tests for the Chinese-speaking population, and so this study aimed to validate the Chinese version of Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination III (ACE-III) for detecting mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild dementia. Its diagnostic accuracy was compared with the Chinese versions of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). METHODS: The 176 included individuals were divided into 3 groups: mild dementia group, MCI group, and normal control group. MMSE, MoCA, and ACE-III were administered to all participants by researchers who were blinded to the clinical grouping. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were analyzed. RESULTS: ACE-III exhibited good internal consistency and convergent validity. Age and education level significantly influenced the total ACE-III scores. When screening MCI, the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was significantly larger for ACE-III than for MMSE (0.88 vs. 0.72, p<0.05) and MoCA (0.88 vs. 0.76, p<0.05). ACE-III showed higher sensitivity (0.75) and specificity (0.89) than MMSE (0.64 and 0.63, respectively) and MoCA (0.67 and 0.77) at the optimal cutoff score of 88/89. For detecting mild dementia, ACE-III yielded satisfactory sensitivity (0.94) and specificity (0.83) at the optimal cutoff score of 74/75. The AUC of ACE-III was 0.95, which was comparable to those of MMSE (0.95) and MoCA (0.91). In participants with ≥12 years of education, the AUC was significantly larger for ACE-III than for MMSE when detecting MCI (0.90 vs. 0.68, p<0.05) and mild dementia (0.97 vs. 0.90, p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The present study has verified that ACE-III is a reliable and accurate tool for screening MCI and mild dementia in the Chinese-speaking population, and is significantly superior to MMSE and MoCA for detecting MCI.
