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The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI): A Practical Test for Cross-Cultural Epidemiological Studies of Dementia

1994; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1041610294001602

1741-203X

Evelyn L. Teng, Kazuo Hasegawa, Akira Homma, Yukimuchi Imai, Eric B. Larson, Amy Borenstein Graves, Keiko Sugimoto, Takenori Yamaguchi, Hideo Sasaki, Darryl Chiu, Lon R. White,

Schizophrenia research and treatment

The Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI) has a score range of 0 to 100 and provides quantitative assessment on attention, concentration, orientation, short-term memory, long-term memory, language abilities, visual construction, list-generating fluency, abstraction, and judgment. Scores of the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Modified Mini-Mental State Test, and the Hasegawa Dementia Screening Scale can also be estimated from subsets of the CASI items. Pilot testing conducted in Japan and in the United States has demonstrated its cross-cultural applicability and its usefulness in screening for dementia, in monitoring disease progression, and in providing profiles of cognitive impairment. Typical administration time is 15 to 20 minutes. Record form, manual, videotape of test administration, and quizzes to qualify potential users on the administration and scoring of the CASI are available upon request.