Cognitive screening among acute respiratory failure survivors: a cross-sectional evaluation of the Mini-Mental State Examination

Table 4 Correlations of MMSE domain scores with corresponding neuropsychological test by demographic variables at 12 months

MMSE domain	Corresponding neuropsychological test	All patients	Gender		Age		Education		Depression		Anxiety		Psychiatric
MMSE domain		All patients	Gender		Age		Education		(Cutoff ≥8)		(Cutoff ≥8)		Co-morbidity
		(N = 173–174)	Male	Female	<50	≥50	≤HS	>HS	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
		(N = 173–174)	(n = 83)	(n = 90–91)	(n = 78)	(n = 95–96)	(n = 88–89)	(n = 83)	(n = 117–118)	(n = 57–56)	(n = 106–107)	(n = 67–68)	(n = 87–88)	(n = 85)
Orientation	Orientation total	0.09	0.05	0.14	0.22	0.01	0.09	−0.01	0.13	−0.05	0.05	0.10	0.14	0.06
Registration	DS total score	0.13	0.15	0.10	0.12	0.15	0.15	0.13	0.02	0.28^a	0.03	0.28^a	0.03	0.24^a
	DS forward	0.14	0.13	0.14	0.11	0.16	0.15	0.15	0.01	0.29^a	0.01	0.29^a	−0.02	0.30^a
	DS backward	0.13	0.18	0.06	0.11	0.16	0.14	0.13	0.04	0.25	0.04	0.24	0.06	0.21
Attention	DS total score	0.28^a	0.34^a	0.20	0.27^a	0.28^a	0.38^a	−0.01	0.08	0.43^a	0.23^a	0.37^a	0.27^a	0.29^a
	DS forward	0.26^a	0.31^a	0.16	0.33^a	0.20	0.32^a	0.02	0.09	0.37^a	0.22^a	0.31^a	0.25^a	0.27^a
	DS backward	0.28^a	0.36^a	0.20	0.20	0.33^a	0.39^a	−0.10	0.11	0.42^a	0.25^a	0.33^a	0.29^a	0.28^a
Memory	LM I	0.16^a	0.23^a	0.11	0.17	0.16	0.11	0.07	0.19^a	0.05	0.16	0.14	0.15	0.17
Memory	LM II	0.23^a	0.30^a	0.18	0.22	0.25^a	0.18	0.13	0.25^a	0.15	0.21^a	0.23	0.20	0.26^a
Language	COWA	0.34^a	0.37^a	0.34^a	0.45^a	0.27^a	0.34^a	0.20	0.35^a	0.25	0.44^a	0.16	0.29^a	0.43^a

MMSE, mini-mental status examination; COWA, controlled oral word association; DS, digit span; LM, logical memory, HS, high school.
^a P ≤0.05.

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