Cognitive domain
|
Description and key variable measured
|
Mental status: |
Mini mental state exam (MMSE)19
| Orientation and mental status; total score |
Verbal learning and memory: |
California verbal learning test (CVLT)25
| New learning and recall of a list of 16 categorised words; total 1–5 (sum of words recalled on five free recall trials); long delay (number of words recalled after a 20-minute filled delay) |
Language: |
Boston naming test (BNT)26
| Confrontational naming; total (number of drawings named correctly or with the aid of semantic cueing) |
Verbal fluency test (COWAT)27
| Phonemic fluency; total (words generated in 60 seconds for each of three letters) |
Visuospatial ability: |
Hooper visual organisation (Hooper)28
| Visuospatial organisation; total (number of pictures identified) |
Information processing speed: |
Trail making test part A (trailsA)29
| Speed and accuracy of visuospatial tracking; total time to completion (seconds) |
Symbol digit modalities test (SDMT)30
| Oral rate of information processing in a visual task; total (number of symbols transcribed in 90 seconds) |
Executive functioning: |
Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST)31
| Generating hypotheses and abstract concepts, shifting mental sets, and utilising feedback; categories (number of categories achieved), perseverative errors (persistence in responding to an incorrect concept), and total error (number of perseverative and non-perseverative errors) |
Stroop colour word test (Stroop)32
| Mental flexibility and the ability to suppress a preferred response in favour of a competing novel response; interference (index of the ability to resist interference from competing stimuli) |
Trail making test part B (trailsB)29
| Mental flexibility and visuospatial tracking; total time to completion (seconds) |
Affective functioning: |
Beck depression inventory (BDI)33
| Depressive symptoms; total score |