Six-Item Cognitive Impairment Test.

6CIT

What it measures

Brief dementia screen; orientation (year/month/time), counting backwards, months in reverse, 5-item address recall

Length and format

6 items, inverse weighted score 0-28 (higher = worse). clinician-administered oral tasks, error-weighted (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

Several European and other adaptations (DE, ES, etc.)

Normative data

Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Brooke P, Bullock R. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 1999;14(11):936-940.