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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018 Sep 19;66(11):2065–2071. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15521

Table 3.

Participants Scoring 0 on Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) Measures Grouped According to Cognitive Domain (n=185)

Cognitive Domain All, N=185 Adjusted MoCA Score
P-Value
<25, n=142 n (%) 25–31, n=43
Executive functioning
 Trails 91 (49.5) 84 (59.2) 7 (16.7) <.001
 Letter B Words 97 (53) 88 (62.4) 9 (21.4) <.001
 Verbal Abstraction 20 (10.8) 20 (14) 0 (0) .009
Visuospatial abilities
 Cube 115 (63.2) 99 (70.7) 16 (38.1) <.001
 Clock 4 (2.2) 4 (2.8) 0 (0) .26
Language
 Animal 1 (0.5) 1 (0.7) 0 (0) .58
 Sentence Repetition 21 (11.3) 19 (13.3) 2 (4.7) .12
Attention, concentration, and working memory
 Digit Span Forward 16 (8.7) 12 (8.5) 4 (9.3) .86
 Digit Span Backward 48 (25.8) 45 (31.5) 3 (7) .001
 Letter A Tapping 33 (17.7) 32 (22.4) 1 (2.3) .002
 Serial 7 Subtractions 27 (14.5) 27 (18.9) 0 (0) .002
Short-term Memory 68 (36.6) 66 (46.2) 2 (4.7) <.001
Orientation to time and space 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) x