TY - JOUR AU - Thaneerat, Thitiphan AU - Tooreerach, Uboonrat AU - Petrugs, Boonlue AU - Kimsao, Piyanoot AU - Hongchukiet, Kwanchanok AU - Deeduang, Boontham PY - 2017/07/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Development of Dementia Screening Test for Thai Elderly JF - Journal of the Psychiatric Association of Thailand JA - J Psychiatr Assoc Thailand VL - 62 IS - 2 SE - Original Articles DO - UR - https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JPAT/article/view/92336 SP - 177-186 AB - Objective : To develop and test the validity and reliability of Dementia Screening Test (DST) operated by non-medical personnel.<br />Method : A tool development and psychometric property testing study design was conducted between February-October 2015, which was divided into 3 phases. Phase 1 was expert panel<br />meeting to aggregate items for DST. Phase 2 was the study of content validity and try out the DST. Phase 3 was the study of the psychometric property of the DST compared with diagnosis<br />by psychiatrist (based on DSM-5 criteria) in diagnostic test study design. The 400 samples were recruited by systematic sampling from all 7 provinces of health region 11, Thailand. Participants<br />must complete the demographic and health questionnaires, DST, TMSE, and MoCA test.<br />Results : Most of the samples were female (64.5%) with mean age of 69.5 years. Sixty-nine percent of the samples were graduated grade 4 or lower. Most of the participants had no<br />direct income (34.5%) with the whole family income less than 5,000 THB/month. Dementia Screening Test (DST) had 3 items (8 points) and the average duration participants used for<br />DST in this study was 3 minutes and 58 seconds. The content validity index and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient were 0.89 and 0.78, respectively. The agreement with clinical diagnosis by<br />psychiatrist was 0.56. Cut-off point of 5 showed area under ROC curve of 0.87. The sensitivity and specificity of DST were 83.1% and 77.9%, respectively. The accuracy of the DST was<br />79.5%, while positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) were 62.8% and 91.1%, respectively. Anymore, the positive likelihood ratio was 3.77.<br />Conclusion : The DST has both good reliability and validity. It is useful for dementia screening in the health system for Thai geriatric population. ER -