Linking the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale and the Severe Impairment Battery: evidence from individual participant data from five randomised clinical trials of donepezil.

Levine, Stephen Z; Yoshida, Kazufumi; Goldberg, Yair; Samara, Myrto; Cipriani, Andrea; Efthimiou, Orestis; Iwatsubo, Takeshi; Leucht, Stefan; Furukawa, Toshi A (2021). Linking the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale and the Severe Impairment Battery: evidence from individual participant data from five randomised clinical trials of donepezil. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 24(2), pp. 56-61. BMJ Publishing Group 10.1136/ebmental-2020-300184

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BACKGROUND

The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-Cog) and the Severe Impairment Battery (SIB) are widely used rating scales to assess cognition in Alzheimer's disease.

OBJECTIVE

To understand the correspondence between these rating scales, we aimed to examine the linkage of MMSE with the ADAS-Cog and SIB total and change scores.

METHODS

We used individual-level data on participants with Alzheimer's disease (n=2925) from five pivotal clinical trials of donepezil. Data were collected at baseline and scheduled visits for up to 6 months. We used equipercentile linking to identify the correspondence between simultaneous measurements of MMSE with ADAS-Cog, and SIB total and change ratings.

FINDINGS

Spearman's correlation coefficients were of strong magnitude between the MMSE total score and the ADAS-Cog (rs from -0.82 to -0.87; p<0.05) and SIB total scores (rs from 0.70 to 0.75; p<0.05). Weaker correlations between the change scores were observed between the MMSE change score and the ADAS-Cog (week 1: r=-0.11, p=0.18; rs thereafter: -0.28 to -0.45; p<0.05) and SIB change scores (rs from 0.31 to 0.44; p<0.05). Linking suggested that the MMSE total scores were sensitive to moderate and severe cognitive impairment levels. Despite weak to moderate correlations for the change scores, moderate change levels linked well, indicating ceiling and floor effects.

CONCLUSIONS

The current results can be used in meta-analyses, data harmonisation and may contribute to increasing statistical power when pooling data from multiple sources.

CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS

The current study results help clinicians to understand these cognitive rating scale scores.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)

UniBE Contributor:

Efthimiou, Orestis

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services

ISSN:

1362-0347

Publisher:

BMJ Publishing Group

Language:

English

Submitter:

Doris Kopp Heim

Date Deposited:

27 Oct 2020 17:21

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:41

Publisher DOI:

10.1136/ebmental-2020-300184

PubMed ID:

33023920

Uncontrolled Keywords:

adult psychiatry delirium & cognitive disorders

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.147568

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/147568

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