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THE MODIFIED MINI-MENTAL STATE TEST Purpose
THE MODIFIED MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION1 Excerpt from Ian McDowell, "Measuring Health: a Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires". Copyright OxfordUniversity Press, New York, 2006 THE MODIFIED MINI-MENTAL STATE TEST (Evelyn Teng, 1987)PurposeThe MODIFIED MINI-MENTAL STATE (MMMS, or 3MS) test extends the scope of the MINI-MENTAL StateExamination (MMSE). The 3MS was intended to improve discrimination among different levels ofdementia. It offers a brief assessment of the person's attention, concentration, orientation to time andplace, long-term and short-term memory, language ability, constructional praxis, abstract thinking, andlist-generating fluency. It may be used as a screening test for cognitive loss or as a brief bedsidecognitive assessment. Conceptual BasisTeng and Chui intended the 3MS to improve sensitivity and specificity of the MMSE by adding itemsand extending the scoring precision; these changes were also intended to reduce floor and ceiling effectsin the MMSE scores.
THE MODIFIED MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION 3 Excerpt from Ian McDowell, "Measuring Health: a Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires". Copyright © Oxford
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