Resources for the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment based
Proactive and Personalised Primary Care of the Elderly
6CIT
6 item Cognitive Impairment Test
Kingshill version 2000
Purpose : Brief screening for early dementia
Admin time : 5-10 min
User Friendly : High
Administered by : Healthcare worker or caregiver
Content : Three orientation items – counting backwards from 20, stating the months of the year in reverse and learning an address
Author : Katzman R, 1983
Copyright : The Kingshill Research Centre, Swindon, UK owns the copyright to The Kingshill Version 2000 of the 6CIT but allows free usage to healthcare professionals
6CIT
6CIT
Advantages:
the test has high sensitivity without compromising specificity, even in mild dementia.
It is easy to translate linguistically and culturally.
Disadvantages:
the main disadvantage is in the scoring and weighting of the test, which is initially confusing; however, computer models have simplified this greatly.
Accuracy :
at the 7/8 cut-off:
Overall figures - sensitivity = 90%, specificity = 100%;
in mild dementia - sensitivity = 78%, specificity = 100%.
6CIT correlates highly with the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), which is copyrighted, and now incurs a cost for each use (Brooke P, 1999)
This Tool is used in Dementia
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Dementia is one of 4 sub-domains of the
Psychological Assessment
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The Psychological Assessment is one of 8 domains of the
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)
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