[Development of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) in Japanese].
In recent years, population of elder people has increased in Japan, following augmentation of the number of people with dementia in Japan. Then it is important to detect cognitive impairment in early stage for adequate treatment, care and prevention. We studied 135 subjects, 49 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and 86 healthy controls using Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS), and developing Japanese version of the TICS (TICS-J). The sensitivity and the specificity of the TICS-J to differentiate AD patients from healthy controls was 98.0% and 90.7%, respectively. Pearson's correlation coefficiency between the TICS-J and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was 0.858 (p < 0.001). On the receiver operating curves, the area under the curve for the TICS-J was 98.7% (95% CI: 97.5%-100%). These results indicate that TICS-J is sensitive and specific instrument for differentiating AD patients from healthy controls.
Konagaya
Yoko
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Department of Research, Obu Dementia Care Research and Training Center, 3-294 Hantsuki-cho, Obu-shi, Aichi 474-0037, Japan.
Watanabe
Tomoyuki
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Washimi
Yukihiko
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Hattori
Hideyuki
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Takeda
Akinori
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Aihara
Yoshiko
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Suzuki
Ryoko
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Ohta
Toshiki
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D044466:Asian People; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity