Development of a practical method to assess reading ability of people with dementia and its clinical application

为了通过谈话评估痴呆症患者的实用阅读能力，我们开发了一种新的方法，实用阅读能力测试-第二稿（PRATD 2）。我们检查了42名不同严重程度的痴呆患者的测试的有效性。虽然许多MMSE低分患者在PRATD 2上表现良好，但PRATD 2与MMSE评分之间存在显著相关性。此外，我们观察到重测信度相当高。

In order to assess practical reading ability of people with dementia through conversation, we developed a new method, the Practical Reading Ability Test for Dementia - 2nd draft (PRATD2). We examined the validity of the test for 42 dementia patients of different severity levels. Although a lot of low-score patients on MMSE could produce a decent performance on PRATD2, the correlations between scores of PRATD2 and MMSE were significant. Additionally, we observed the test-retest reliability was considerably high.