title: Relationship Between the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status in Patients Referred for a Dementia Evaluation.
abstract: The current study examined the relationship between the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in a large, heterogeneous sample of patients referred for dementia assessment (N = 495; 37% males, 63% females; M age = 76.8 years, SD = 7.0). The MMSE showed a significant moderate correlation with the RBANS Total Scale score (r = .65). Moderate significant correlations were found between the MMSE and the RBANS indexes (r = .41 to .49). The MMSE demonstrated moderate correlations with RBANS factor scores of .63 for Factor 1 (memory/learning) and .58 for Factor 2 (visuospatial/attention). These correlations suggest that the MMSE is best considered a measure of global cognitive functioning with the strongest correlations between broader measures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Tyler, TX, USA andrew_schmitt@uttyler.edu.
authors.forename: Andrew L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Tyler, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Ronald B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Livingston
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Tyler, TX, USA.
authors.forename: William F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Goette
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Jeanine M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Galusha-Glasscock
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003704:Dementia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Assessment of dementia; MMSE; RBANS; cognitive screening