The validity of the Korean-Montreal Cognitive Assessment (K-MoCA) as a screening test for both MCI and VCI

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Event Abstract Back to Event The validity of the Korean-Montreal Cognitive Assessment (K-MoCA) as a screening test for both MCI and VCI Y. Kang1*, B. C. Lee2, J. Park2 and K. H. Yu2 1 Hallym University, Department of Psychology, South Korea 2 Hallym University College of Medicine , Department of Neurology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, South Korea The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was originally developed as a brief screening test for MCI. However, the NINDS-CSN VCI Harmonization Standards working group (Hachinski et al., 2006) suggested that the MoCA would also be a useful instrument for VCI. This study was conducted to examine the validity of the newly developed Korean version of the MOCA (K-MoCA; Kang et al., 2009) as an instrument for screening of VCI as well as MCI. Two hundred and thirty-three patients (68 AD, 85 MCI, 44 VaD,, and 36 VCI-ND) and 81 healthy normal controls were given the K-MoCA and Korean-Mini Mental State Examination (K-MMSE) with a comprehensive neuropsychological test battery. Strong correlations between the K-MoCA and K-MMSE were found in all groups (range .78~.90). Receiver Operating Curve (ROC) analyses showed that the K-MoCA could differentiate the MCI (AUC=.62, p<.05) and the VCI-ND (AUC=.67, p<.01) as well as the AD (AUC=.87, p<.001) and the VaD (AUC=.90, p<.001) from normal controls, suggesting that the K-MoCA was equally sensitive to the K-MMSE (AUCs=.62, .63, .89, .90) for detecting the MCI, VCI-ND, AD, and VaD. These results indicated that the K-MoCA has good concurrent validity with the K-MMSE as a screening test for both MCI and VCI. Conference: The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes, Toronto, Canada, 22 Mar - 26 Mar, 2010. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Neurologic Citation: Kang Y, Lee BC, Park J and Yu KH (2010). The validity of the Korean-Montreal Cognitive Assessment (K-MoCA) as a screening test for both MCI and VCI. Conference Abstract: The 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, The frontal lobes. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnins.2010.14.00148 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 01 Jul 2010; Published Online: 01 Jul 2010. * Correspondence: Y. Kang, Hallym University, Department of Psychology, Chuncheon, South Korea, ykang@hallym.ac.kr Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Y. Kang B. C Lee J. Park K. H Yu Google Y. Kang B. C Lee J. Park K. H Yu Google Scholar Y. Kang B. C Lee J. Park K. H Yu PubMed Y. Kang B. C Lee J. Park K. H Yu Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.