It has become very popular and useful as an alternative resource for the traditional Mini-Mental State Examination. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) is a brief screening test that assesses the general cognitive state. The normative data of the MoCA is provided taking into account the Spanish sociodemographic characteristics for adults in Spain and the cut-off to distinguish between normal cognitive performance and mild cognitive impairment according to different range of ages have been proposed.ĪB - Introduction. Percentiles and scalar score for each range of age, and scalar score adjusted by the level of education were obtained. The older participants with lower level of formal education obtained the worse performance shown in MoCA.

Age, education and sex explained from 1.0% to 32.3% of the variance of the performance. However, sex was only significant in two domains (attention and delayed recall). Results showed a significant effect of age, level of education and sex on the cognitive performance of MoCA. The effect of age, level of education and sex was analyzed on the performance of MoCA and percentiles and scalar score for nine ranges of age and scalar score adjusted by the level of education. Seven hundred participants were recruited (older than 18 years old). The present study is part of the Normacog Project. To normalize and to standardize the MoCA taking into account the sociodemographic characteristics of the Spanish population (INE data, 2012). T2 - Normalización y estandarización de la prueba en población española T1 - Test de evaluación cognitiva de Montreal The normative data of the MoCA is provided taking into account the Spanish sociodemographic characteristics for adults in Spain and the cut-off to distinguish between normal cognitive performance and mild cognitive impairment according to different range of ages have been proposed.',

The normative data of the MoCA is provided taking into account the Spanish sociodemographic characteristics for adults in Spain and the cut-off to distinguish between normal cognitive performance and mild cognitive impairment according to different range of ages have been proposed.Ībstract = 'Introduction.

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