Consistency and applicability of different brief screen instrument of cognitive function in elderly population

BMC Neurology

Table 5 Correlations among different cognitive functional tests

		mmse	SCWT TI	SCWT EI	SCWT IS	TMTErrors	TMTtime	Vftotal	MOCA
mmse	Coefficient	1	−0.04	−0.066	−0.132	− 0.152	−0.086	0.527	0.576
mmse	P value		0.655	0.458	0.131	0.054	0.277	< 0.001	< 0.001
SCWT TI	Coefficient	−0.04	1	0.166	0.779	−0.017	0.027	−0.143	− 0.063
SCWT TI	P value	0.655		0.059	0	0.847	0.759	0.103	0.474
SCWT EI	Coefficient	−0.066	0.166	1	0.586	0.09	0.109	−0.158	−0.205
SCWT EI	P value	0.458	0.059		0	0.308	0.216	0.071	0.019
SCWT IS	Coefficient	−0.132	0.779	0.586	1	0.105	0.057	−0.254	−0.157
SCWT IS	P value	0.131	0	0		0.231	0.515	0.003	0.069
TMTErrors	Coefficient	−0.152	−0.017	0.09	0.105	1	0.567	−0.187	−0.32
TMTErrors	P value	0.054	0.847	0.308	0.231		0	0.017	< 0.001
TMTtime	Coefficient	−0.086	0.027	0.109	0.057	0.567	1	0.022	−0.265
TMTtime	P value	0.277	0.759	0.216	0.515	0		0.785	0.001
Vftotal	Coefficient	0.527	−0.143	−0.158	− 0.254	−0.187	0.022	1	0.514
Vftotal	P value	< 0.001	0.103	0.071	0.003	0.017	0.785		< 0.001
MOCA	Coefficient	0.576	−0.063	−0.205	− 0.157	− 0.32	− 0.265	0.514	1
MOCA	P value	< 0.001	0.474	0.019	0.069	0	0.001	< 0.001

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