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French Language Validation of the 5-minutes Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Evaluations, Diagnostic Self
Cognitive Symptom
Interventions
Diagnostic Test: Full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Diagnostic Test: 5 minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Registration Number
NCT03232697
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Lille
Brief Summary

The aim of the study is to validate a french version of the 5 minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment as compared to the french full version of this test.

Detailed Description

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) is a test used to detect cognitive impairments. This test is available in different languages including french. A short version (the 5 minutes MOCA) has also been validated through a phone call use that allows to develop some epidemiological approaches. Nevertheless, this short version has not been validated in french.

The main aim of the study is to validate the french translation of the short version of the MOCA as compared the the full french version of the test.

To validate the short version, several groups of subjects will be included : healthy subjects, Alzheimer disease patients, Parkinson or Huntington diseases patients as well as diabetic patients.

The inclusion of both healthy subjects and patients with different types of cognitive impairments will allow to validate the short version of the test.

All subjects and patients will first be submitted to the full version of the MOCA during a face to face procedure. Thirty to forty days later, they will be submitted to the short version of the test through a phone call performed by an independent rater.

Subgroups of healthy subjects and patients will also be used to determine the test-retest and inter-rater reliability of the short version of the MOCA.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
236
Inclusion Criteria

Healthy Volunteers

  • Volunteers, BMI <26
  • free from neurological, psychiatric, metabolic or cardiac pathologies;
  • Absence of active metabolic or cardiac diseases, unstabilized under treatment
  • Pregnant test negative

Patients

  • Patients suffering from pathologies that may be accompanied by cognitive decline or dementia (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, diabetes) that meet the usual diagnostic criteria for these diseases;
  • Patients should not start treatment of a new therapeutic class under test
Exclusion Criteria
  • Pregnant or nursing women.
  • Illiterate subjects
  • Presence of uncorrected visual or auditory disturbances
  • "Alcohol use disorder" observed at the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Inventory (MINI);
  • "Substance use disorder" observed at the MINI;
  • Participation in a therapeutic trial or in an exclusion period from a previous clinical trial;
  • Patient whose physical or mental condition does not allow them to pass the study tests;
  • Persons under guardianship or under trusteeship;
  • Recent cognitive assessment (less than 6 months) by the classic MoCA

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Diabetic patientsFull version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentPatients will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Parkinson and Huntington patientsFull version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentPatients will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Alzheimer patients5 minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentPatients will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Healthy subjects5 minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentSubjects will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Diabetic patients5 minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentPatients will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Healthy subjectsFull version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentSubjects will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Alzheimer patientsFull version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentPatients will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Parkinson and Huntington patients5 minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive AssessmentPatients will be submitted to both the full version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment and of the 5-minutes version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Correlation between scores obtained with the different versions of the MOCA30 to 40 days

To measure the correlation between the results obtained at the short and full versions of the MOCA

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Performance of the short version of the MOCA30 to 40 days

Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analyses of the short version of MOCA to determine cognitive impairment as compared to full version as a gold-standard

Test-retest reliability30 to 40 days

To determine the test-retest reliability of the short version of the MOCA

Inter-rater reliability30 to 40 days

To determine the inter-rater reliability of the short version of the MOCA

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital

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Lille, France

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