Mini-Mental State Examination.

MMSE

What it measures

Global cognitive screening for dementia; orientation, registration, attention/calculation, recall, language, visuoconstruction

Length and format

~30 (scored 0-30); 11 question groups. clinician-administered tasks (oral + drawing), scored items (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

70+ languages incl. ES, FR, DE, ZH, KO, PT-BR, EL, AR, JA

Normative data

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

Licence

copyrighted - commercial

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Reference

Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. J Psychiatr Res. 1975;12(3):189-198. PAR product page: parinc.com/products/MMSE