Validation of the short version of the 10/66 dementia diagnosis in multiethnic Asian older adults in Singapore

BMC Geriatrics

Table 3 Comparison of dementia prevalence across age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, education and employment groups, according to the short version and standard version diagnostic algorithms

	Short version 10/66 diagnosis		Standard version 10/66 diagnosis		Percentage difference	Kappa	AUC
	Weighted %	SE	Weighted %	SE	Percentage difference	Kappa	AUC
Age group (years)
60–74	4.33	0.76	2.99	0.62	1.34	0.70	0.93
75–84	22.96	2.37	21.36	2.31	1.60	0.86	0.94
85+	58.11	3.36	55.47	3.40	2.64	0.89	0.94
Gender
Men	8.48	1.11	7.22	1.02	1.26	0.86	0.96
Women	12.81	1.08	11.19	0.95	1.62	0.84	0.95
Ethnicity
Chinese	11.42	0.90	9.74	0.80	1.68	0.84	0.95
Malay	9.68	0.95	9.85	0.95	−0.17	0.95	0.97
Indian	9.20	0.91	7.61	0.78	1.59	0.82	0.95
Others
Marital status
Never married	8.82	3.38	5.33	2.53	3.49	0.71	0.97
Married/cohabiting	6.31	0.82	5.52	0.76	0.79	0.81	0.93
Widowed	25.05	2.07	22.57	1.89	2.48	0.88	0.96
Divorced/separated	6.51	3.33	3.61	2.45	2.90	0.70	0.98
Education
None	24.82	2.62	21.59	2.37	3.23	0.84	0.94
Some, but did not complete primary	14.23	1.91	10.47	1.59	3.76	0.81	0.97
Completed primary	8.10	1.51	9.16	1.59	−1.06	0.85	0.90
Completed secondary	4.54	1.06	3.47	0.86	1.07	0.84	0.99
Completed tertiary	2.65	1.08	2.31	1.04	0.34	0.93	1.00
Employment status
Paid work (part-time and full-time)	0.69	0.36	0.22	0.09	0.47	0.47	1.00
Unemployed
Homemaker	13.56	1.61	11.92	1.45	1.64	0.89	0.97
Retired	17.87	1.61	15.38	1.47	2.49	0.81	0.93

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