TY - JOUR
T1 - The Memory and Aging Telephone Screen
T2 - Development and preliminary validation
AU - Rabin, Laura A.
AU - Saykin, Andrew J.
AU - Wishart, Heather A.
AU - Nutter-Upham, Katherine E.
AU - Flashman, Laura A.
AU - Pare, Nadia
AU - Santulli, Robert B.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the following individuals for their help with this study: Leslie Baxter, Cheryl Brown, Margaret Nordstrom, Heather Pixley, and Paul Wang of the Department of Psychiatry. Supported in part by grants from the National Institute on Aging (R01 AG19771), Alzheimer’s Association (IIRG-94-133; IIRG-99-1653, sponsored by the Hedco Foundation), the Hitchcock Foundation, the Ira DeCamp Foundation, and New Hampshire Hospital, Concord, NH.
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - Background: Telephone interviews are widely used in geriatric settings to identify eligible research participants and to perform brief follow-up assessments of cognition. This article reports on the development and validation of the Memory and Aging Telephone Screen (MATS), a structured interview for older adults with mild cognitive impairment and/or significant memory complaints. We also developed three alternate forms of the MATS objective memory test to reduce practice effects engendered by multiple administrations. Methods: Participants were enrolled in a longitudinal study that included 120 older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, subjective cognitive complaints but without deficit on neuropsychological tests, and demographically matched healthy controls. An additional 15 patients with mild probable Alzheimer's disease completed the alternative forms study. All participants received the original MATS version, and a subset (n = 90) later received two of three alternate forms. Results: The MATS was sensitive to group differences, and the alternate forms were equivalent. MATS objective memory test scores showed adequate stability during a period of 1 year and were moderately correlated with scores on a widely used list-learning test (California Verbal Learning Test, Second Edition). Conclusions: The MATS, a repeatable telephone screen that includes objective and subjective memory assessments, is useful for detecting individuals in the preclinical and early stages of dementia. Results encourage use of the MATS as a reliable and valid cognitive screening tool in research and clinical settings. Longitudinal assessments are being performed to investigate the predictive validity of the MATS for cognitive progression in mild cognitive impairment.
AB - Background: Telephone interviews are widely used in geriatric settings to identify eligible research participants and to perform brief follow-up assessments of cognition. This article reports on the development and validation of the Memory and Aging Telephone Screen (MATS), a structured interview for older adults with mild cognitive impairment and/or significant memory complaints. We also developed three alternate forms of the MATS objective memory test to reduce practice effects engendered by multiple administrations. Methods: Participants were enrolled in a longitudinal study that included 120 older adults with amnestic mild cognitive impairment, subjective cognitive complaints but without deficit on neuropsychological tests, and demographically matched healthy controls. An additional 15 patients with mild probable Alzheimer's disease completed the alternative forms study. All participants received the original MATS version, and a subset (n = 90) later received two of three alternate forms. Results: The MATS was sensitive to group differences, and the alternate forms were equivalent. MATS objective memory test scores showed adequate stability during a period of 1 year and were moderately correlated with scores on a widely used list-learning test (California Verbal Learning Test, Second Edition). Conclusions: The MATS, a repeatable telephone screen that includes objective and subjective memory assessments, is useful for detecting individuals in the preclinical and early stages of dementia. Results encourage use of the MATS as a reliable and valid cognitive screening tool in research and clinical settings. Longitudinal assessments are being performed to investigate the predictive validity of the MATS for cognitive progression in mild cognitive impairment.
KW - Cognitive complaints
KW - Interview
KW - Memory
KW - Mild cognitive impairment
KW - Neuropsychological assessment
KW - Telephone screen
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jalz.2007.02.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jalz.2007.02.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 19595923
AN - SCOPUS:34247149415
SN - 1552-5260
VL - 3
SP - 109
EP - 121
JO - Alzheimer's and Dementia
JF - Alzheimer's and Dementia
IS - 2
ER -