Table 1.
The details of the MMSE scale in the study.
| Domain | Item | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Orientation | What time of day is it right now (morning, afternoon, evening)? | 1 |
| What is the month (Western or Chinese calendar) right now? | 1 | |
| What is the date (Chinese calendar day and month) of the mid-autumn festival? | 1 | |
| What is the season right now, spring, summer, fall, winter? | 1 | |
| What is the name of this district or town? | 1 | |
| Please name as many kinds of food as possible in 1 min. | 7 | |
| Registration | Please repeat these three objects (table, apple, clothes). | 3 |
| Attention and calculation | I will ask you to spend 3 dollars from 20 dollars, then you must spend 3 dollars from the number you arrived at and continue to spend 3 dollars until you are asked to stop. | 5 |
| Ask the interviewee to draw a figure of overlapping pentagons. | 1 | |
| Recall | Please repeat the three words (in any order) learned earlier(table、apple、clothes). | 3 |
| Language | Give the interviewee a pen and then a watch and ask what these objects are called. | 2 |
| Repeat the following sentence:‘What you plant, what you will get.’ | 1 | |
| The participants are asked to follow the instructions “Take the paper using your right hand, fold it in the middle using both hands, and place the paper on the floor.” | 3 |