[The Geriatric Concentration Test. Results of a study of patients over 65 years of age in Mannheim].
The validity of the Alters-Konzentrations-Test (AKT; Geriatric Concentration Test) developed by Gatterer (7) was tested in a sample of 33 psychiatric patients and 28 residents of an old people's home 65 years of age and older. The AKT evaluation correlated significantly with the diagnosis of dementia according to the Feighner criteria in the old people's home sample for which a cut-off of 47/48 was used. However, there was no significant correlation in the sample of psychiatric patients. The AKT score correlated with the values from other procedures for evaluating cognitive performance. In the old people's home sample, the AKT scores were significantly associated with self-reported activities of daily living as well as with activity and mood of the probands reported by the head of home; this, however, is not true for the hospital patients.
Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim.
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001288:Attention; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics
Der Alters-Konzentrations-Test. Ergebnisse einer Studie bei über 65jährigen in Mannheim.