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A person who has no cognitive decline will have an average score of 3, while scores of greater than 3 indicate that some decline has occurred. However, some users of the IQCODE have scored it by summing the scores to give a range from 26 to 130. [3] Various cutoff scores have been used to distinguish dementia from normality.
Zanarini's initial validation study in 2003 found the instrument to be both sensitive (81%) and specific (85%) in correctly classifying individuals when using a cutoff score of 7. For those 25 years old or younger, the study reported a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 93%.
The pilot study was used to discern the preliminary cutoff scores for the CAST. Parents of 13 children with Asperger syndrome and 37 typically developing children completed the CAST questionnaire. There were significant differences in average scores, with the Asperger syndrome sample average of 21.08 (range 15–31) and the typical sample ...
When my family moved to New Hampshire going into my freshman year of high school, Dr. C. Everett Koop, President Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general, became my neighbor. As an aspiring doctor, I ...
There are a handful of things most of us do every day upon waking up: brush our teeth, scroll on our phones, enjoy a cup of coffee.For many, that cup of coffee is a non-negotiable, whether you ...
Crystal Mangum, the former exotic dancer who accused three Duke men’s lacrosse players of rape in 2006, igniting a national firestorm, now says she lied about the encounter. “I testified ...
The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory – Fourth Edition (MCMI-IV) is the most recent edition of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.The MCMI is a psychological assessment tool intended to provide information on personality traits and psychopathology, including specific mental disorders outlined in the DSM-5.
These authors [3] mentioned, with respect to SIMS cutoff of > 14 points, that “research (e.g., Clegg et al., 2009 [16]) has found that non-feigning clients often exceed this cut score.” Rogers and his research team suggested that the cutoff for SIMS total score might need to be set as high as > 44 points to improve specificity, when dealing ...