title: Mini mental Parkinson test: standardization and normative data on an Italian sample.
abstract: The mini mental Parkinson (MMP) is a test built to overcome the limits of the mini mental state examination (MMSE) in the short-time screening of cognitive disorders in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). In fact, in this scale, items tapping executive functioning are included to better capture PD-related cognitive changes. Some data sustain the sensitivity and validity of the MMP in the short neuropsychological screening of these individuals. Here, we report normative data on the MMP we collected on a sample of 307 Italian healthy subjects ranging from 40 to 91 years. The results document a detrimental effect of age and an ameliorative effect of education on the MMP total performance score. We provide for correction grids for age and literacy that derive from results of the regression analyses. Moreover, we also computed equivalent scores in order to allow a direct and fast comparison between the performance on the MMP and on other psychometric measures that can be administered to the subjects.
authors.affiliation: IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179, Rome, Italy, a.costa@hsantalucia.it.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Eriola
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bagoj
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monaco
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zabberoni
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Rosa
authors.forename: Ciro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mundi
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caltagirone
authors.forename: Giovanni Augusto
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Carlesimo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001288:Attention; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000150:complications*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014706:Verbal Learning