Brief Assessment of Impaired Cognition (BASIC)

Danish Dementia Research Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dementia

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: BASIC

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT04304859

1604063 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

NVD-2019-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to develop and validate a new brief and accurate case-finding instrument for dementia and cognitive impairment - BASIC

Full description

The case-finding instrument consists of four components: a. patient-directed questions, b. supermarket fluency, c. category-cued Memory Test, d. informant-directed questions.

The data collection was carried out at five outpatient memory clinics in Denmark

Enrollment: 428 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• fluent in Danish

Exclusion criteria

• impaired eyesight or hearing

Trial design

428 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases referred from GP

Description:

BASIC (Brief Assessment of Impaired Cognition) MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination) Extensive diagnostic work-up including clinical interview, neurological and physical examination, laboratory screening tests, structural neuroimaging

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: BASIC

Healthy controls

Description:

Test performed: BASIC MMSE GDS-15 (Geriatric Depression Scale)

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: BASIC