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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2016 Nov 5;13(3):296–311. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.09.012

TABLE 2.

Information recommended to be included in research reports on SCD:

  1. Measurement approach:

    • Research environment (e.g., memory clinic, volunteer sample, population-based cohort)

    • Names of measures (where relevant) and information about their psychometric properties

    • Respondent category (e.g., self, informant, clinician, self- and informant)

    • Administration mode (e.g., paper-and-pencil, spontaneous report, phone interview)

    • Timeframe and reference group (e.g., comparison to age-peers, comparison to oneself at an early time point, compared to previously normal state)

    • Domains tapped (e.g., memory only; memory, language, attention)

  2. Defined cutoffs on subjective report measures, or other approach used, with explanation for how cutoffs were derived to quantify level of subjective cognitive impairment (including information about normative comparisons and any demographic adjustments)

  3. Defined cutoffs on objective report measures, or other approach used, with explanation for how cutoffs were derived to quantify level of objective cognitive impairment (including information about normative comparisons and any demographic adjustments)