Brief Assessment of Impaired Cognition

Completed

• Conditions: Dementia
• Interventions: Diagnostic Test: BASIC

• Registration Number: NCT04304859
• Lead Sponsor: Danish Dementia Research Centre

Brief Summary

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

Detailed 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

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-10-31
• Study Completion: 2019-05-01
• Study First Submitted: 2019-11-28
• Status Verified: 2020-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-03-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-10
• Study First Posted: 2020-03-11
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 428

Inclusion Criteria

• fluent in Danish

Exclusion Criteria

• impaired eyesight or hearing

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Healthy controls	BASIC	Test performed: BASIC MMSE GDS-15 (Geriatric Depression Scale)
Cases referred from GP	BASIC	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

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Brief Assessment of Impaired Cognition (BASIC)	through study completion, an average of 1 year	Dementia and cognitive impairment cutoff 20/21

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

DDRC; 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark