Factors that affect Mini-Mental Status Exam Score of Elderly Patients from Saints Peter and John Parish Clinic Potrero Malabon City and MCU-FDTMF Hospital Health Clinic

Jo Ann Marie  Seville,; Suzuette  S. Armin,; Mary Ann  B. Virola-Leh,

Factors that affect Mini-Mental Status Exam Score of Elderly Patients from Saints Peter and John Parish Clinic Potrero Malabon City and MCU-FDTMF Hospital Health Clinic

Jo Ann Marie Seville | Suzuette S. Armin | Mary Ann B. Virola-Leh

Abstract:

Background: The Philippines is now going to the trend of aging population. With this, cases of dementia will also increase. The Mini Mental Status Examination is a cognitive test that is used as part of the evaluation for dementia. Objective: The aim of the study is determine the factors that affect Mini Mental Status Examination score of elderly patients from Saints Peter and John Parish Potrero, Malabon City and MCU-FDTMF Hospital Industrial Health Clinic, EDSA Caloocan. Methods: All 88 respondents were interviewed adapted from the Folstein Mini Mental Status Exam Questionnaire and data were encoded and tallied. Descriptive statistics were generated for all variables. For nominal data frequencies and percentages were computed. For numerical data, mean ± SD were generated. Analysis of the different variables was done using the following test statistics: Anova, Mann Whitney U test and Chi-square test. Results: There was no significant difference noted in the proportion of respondents with normal, mild or moderate MMSE score according to age, sex, educational level, family structure, and average number of working years as shown all p values >0.05. Conclusion: Among age, sex, educational level, family structure and average number of working years, these have no effect on the MMSE scores of the respondents.

References:

Dementia and the Aging Filipino Population. PhilStar [Internet] 2010 Mar 30 [cited 2018]:Health and Family Available from https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/health-andfamily/2010/03/30/562082/dementia-and-aging-filipino-population
Tan ML Dementia. Philippine Daily Inquirer [Internet] 2010 Oct 13 [cited 2018]:Health Medicine (about 1 p.) Available from: https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/philippine-daily-inquirer/20101013/282853662305594
Creavin ST, Wisniewski S, Noel-Storr AH, Trevelyan CM, Hampton T, Rayment D, et al. Mini-mental Status Examination (MMSE) for the detector of dementia in clinically unevaluated people aged 65 and over in community and primary care population. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2016 Jan 13;(1);cd011145
American Psychiatry Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition (DSM 4-TR),APA Publishing. 2000.
Santa Cruz and Swagerty. Early Diagnosis of Dementia. Am Fam Physician. 2001. 63(4):703-714 .
LeTenneur L, Gilleron V, Commenges D, Helmer C, and Dartigues JF. “Are sex and educational level independent predictors of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease? Incidence data from the PAQUID Project” J Neurol, Neurosurg and Psychiatry. 1999;66:177-183.
Mortimer J and Graves A. Education and other socioeconomic determinants of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease”. Neurology. 1993; 43:S39-S44.
Weissman MM, Myers JK, Tischer GL. Psychiatric disorders (DSM-III) and cognitive impairment among the elderly in a US urban community. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1985; 71: 366-79.
Yu ESH, Liu WT, Levy P. Cognitive impairment among elderly adults in Shanghai, China. J Gerontol. 1989; 44: S97-S106.
Scherr PA, Albert MS, Fukenstein HH. “Correlates of cognitive function in an elderly community population. Am J Epidemiol. 1988;128:1084-1101.
Greene DR. Relationship Between Occupational Complexity and Dementia Risk in Late Life. A population Study. (2013) All Graduate Thesis and Dissertation.1975. Available from: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1975.
Kreger E, Andel R, Lindsay J, Benounissa Z, Verreault R, Laurin D. Is Complexity of work associated with Risk of Dementia. Am J Epidemio. 2008;167:820-830.
Sommerlad A, Ruegger J, Singh-Manoux A, Lewis G, Livingston G. Marriage and Risk of Dementia: Systemic Review and meta-analysis of observational studies. J. Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018; 89(3): 231-238.
Kuiper JS, Zuidersma M, Oude Vahaar RC, Zuidema SU, van den Heuvel ER, Stolk RP, Smidt N. Social Relationships and Risk of Dementia: a syatematic Review and meta- amalysis of longitudinal cohort studies. Ageing Res Rev. 2015 Jul;22:39-57.
Crum RM, Anthony JC, Bassett SS, Folstein MF. Population Based norms for the Mini Mental State Examination by age and educational level. JAMA. 1993 May;269(18):2386-91.
Plassman BL, Welsh KA, Helms M, Brandt J, Page WF, Breitner JC. Intelligence and education as predictors of cognitive state in late life: a 50-year follow-up. Neurology 1995 Aug;45(8):1446–50.
Nourhashemi, F. Deschamps V, Larrieu S, Letenneur L, Dartiques JF, Barberger-Gateau P et al. Body mass index and incidence of dementia: the PAQUID study. Neurology, 2003 Jan; 60(1):117-119.
Kumar S, Tiwari SC, Tripthi RK, Pandey NM. Socio economic Status has bearing on the Mini Mental State Examination score among Indian Urban Elderly. JGMH. 2014; 1(2): 90-93.