ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Jongjate Youngsakul

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: The Modified Thai Mental State Examination (MTMSE) for Thai illiterate Subjects with no formal education.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Siriraj Hospital Gazette. Vol. 54, No. 2, February 2002, Page 96-109.

รายละเอียด / Details:

The author has development the "Modified Thai Mental State Examination(MTMSE)" for illiterate Thai people. The test is adapted from the "Thai Mental State Examination (TMSE)". The total possible score of the MTMSE is 29 points and it contains six subtests concerning orientation (6 points), registration (3 points), attention (5 points), calculation (3 points), language (9 points), and recall (3 points). This test was applied to 60 normal healthy elderly Thai with no formal education, aged between 60-70 years living in Ampur Cho-I-rong, Narathiwat Province. The mean total score of the MTMSE was 21.97 (standard deviation 3.41) points. The cut-off point for the diagnosis of normality in healthy elderly Thai using the MTMSE was over 15 points. The score was calculated by the mean total score minus by double standard deviation of the mean (mean-2SD). There was only Thai elderly subject 0.02% who got a full score of 29 in the MTMSE test. The subtest score lowest was recall (33.41% of total score losts). No individual lost scores in the registration suntest. The Modified Thai Mental State Examination (MTMSE) is a quick (mean test duration was 15.78 minutes) and applicable to illiterate Thai in rural areas of Thailand.

Keywords: Thai mental state examination, elderly, mental health, test, illiterate Thai people

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2002

Address: Cho-I-Rong Hospital, Ampur Cho-I-Rong, Narathiwat

Code: 0000000147

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-152X

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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