visual association test
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Advantages
- assesses cued recall of pictorial stimuli
- not dependent upon language
Procedure
- the patient is shown 6 cue cards with familiar objects
- the patient is then shown 6 association cards that show new interactions involving the familiar objects
- finally, the patient is again shown the initial familiar objects & asked to identify the missing object
- ref[2] shows examples of association cards
Interpretation
- 12 point scoring system:
- with cutoff of 7
- Sensitivity: 95.2%
- Specificity: 96.0%
- Positive predictive value: 55.6%
- Negative predictive value: 99.7%
- virtually nobody scoring >= 8 has dementia
More general terms
References
- ↑ Fuchs A et al. Cued recall and other cognitive tasks to facilitate dementia recognition in primary care. J Am Geriatr Soc 2012 Jan; 60:130 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22150245
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lindeboom J et al Visual association test to detect early dementia of the Alzheimer type J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002;73:126-133 http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/73/2/126.full.pdf+html