From: Characteristic differences in the mini-mental state examination used in Asian countries
China | Hong Kong | India | Indonesia | Japan | Korea | Malaysia | The Philippines | Singapore | Taiwan | Thailand | |
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Time orientation (5) a | |||||||||||
Year | M, A, Eb | ||||||||||
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Day | |||||||||||
Date | |||||||||||
Season | Time | Festival | Alternativesc | ||||||||
Place orientation (5) d | |||||||||||
Country | Department | Place nature | Post office | Prefecture | |||||||
Province | Region | District | Region | Street (barangay) | District | ||||||
City | District | Village | Place nature | Landmark | |||||||
Hospital | Building | Block (zip code) | Place name | Building | Place name | ||||||
Floor | Place name | ||||||||||
Registration (3) and Recall (3) | Rubber ball | Apple | Mango | Apple | any threee | Plane | any threee | Mango | Pen | any threee | Flower |
National flag | Newspaper | Chair | Table | Pencil | Table | Apple | River | ||||
Tree | Train | Coin | Coin | Pine tree | Money | Cat | Train (tree, ocean, car)f | ||||
Attention and Calculation (5) | Serial 7’s | Serial 7’s or | Serial 7’s or | Serial 7’s or | Serial 7’s | Serial 7’s or | Serial 7’s or | Serial 7’s | Serial 7’s or | ||
Serial 5’s or | Serial 3’s from 20 or | ||||||||||
Digit span | Name, | Spell | Spell | Spell | Spell | Spell | Spell | ||||
backwards | Date | “WAHYU” | “Fujinoyama” | “WORLD” | “KARNE” | “WORLD” | “MANĀW” | ||||
backwards | backwards (means revelation) | backwards | backwards | backwards (means meat) | backwards | backwards (means lemon) | |||||
Language and Visuospatial function (9) | |||||||||||
Naming (2) | touch g | ||||||||||
Pencil | Pen | Pen | Ballpoint pen | any twoh | |||||||
Watch | Book | ||||||||||
Repeat (1) | |||||||||||
“Si shi si zhi shi zi” | “Yi fu mai yu chang” | “Na tō yaha na hī vaha” | “Namun, tanpa, bila” | “Min’na de, ryokuo awasete tsunao hikimasu” | “Baek mun e bul yeo il geoun” | “Tak mungkin dan cukup mustahil” | “Minikaniko ni monikaang makina” | “Marah, merah, murah” | Randomk | “Cry- cry –kai- ggai –kai” | |
(meaning) | (It is forty-four stone lions.) | (Uncle is buying fish guts.)i | (neither this nor that: proverb) | (However, without, if) | (Everyone, pull the rope to fit the power.) | (Seeing is believing.) | (No, it is impossible.) | unknown (tongue-twister) | (angry, red, cheap)j | (who, desire, chicken, egg) | |
Command (3) | |||||||||||
Take a paper in your right hand, | in your right hand | in your hand | Turn the paper | with your non-dominant hand | in your left hand | ||||||
fold it in half, and | |||||||||||
put it on the floor (table). | on your thigh | on your lap | give it to me | on the floor | on the desk | give it to me | put it on the floor | on your lap | give it to me | ||
Reading (1) | follow l | ||||||||||
Writing (1) | (no score)m | ||||||||||
Inter-locking pentagons (1) | 3 pointsm |