Normative Data for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a Lebanese Older Adult Population

•Cultural differences are evident in cognitive testing.•Normative data are culturally dependent therefore specific for every society.•Our Mean Total MoCA score was lower than the Nasreddine suggested score.•MoCA Total score increases with education wheareas age was not relevant.•Age appeared to corr...

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Published in:Journal of clinical neuroscience 2020-04, Vol.74, p.81-86
Main Authors: Hayek, Maryse, Tarabey, Lubna, Abou-Mrad, Tatiana, Fadel, Patricia, Abou-Mrad, Fadi
Format: Article
Language:English
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Cognitive impairment
Dementia
Elderly
Lebanon
MoCA
Normative data
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Summary:•Cultural differences are evident in cognitive testing.•Normative data are culturally dependent therefore specific for every society.•Our Mean Total MoCA score was lower than the Nasreddine suggested score.•MoCA Total score increases with education wheareas age was not relevant.•Age appeared to correlate with the attention subscore. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a neuropsychological tool for cognitive decline screening is widely used. In the absence of normative data in Lebanon, this study offers normative data for the MoCA in Lebanese community-dwelling older people and compare scores to those of other countries. Methods: 164 literate subjects aged 60 and above were recruited to complete the MoCA. Results: The mean MoCA score observed (24.20 points) was lower than that for normal controls (27.4 points) in the original validation study of the MoCA. Regression analysis showed that fewer years of education were associated with lower MoCA scores (p 
ISSN:0967-5868
1532-2653
DOI:10.1016/j.jocn.2020.01.050