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Table 5 Cognitive and Emotional assessment tests

From: A randomized controlled trial protocol to test the efficacy of a dual-task multicomponent exercise program in the attenuation of frailty in long-term nursing home residents: Aging-ONDUAL-TASK study

Test (Reference)

Functions

Description

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) (Coen et al., 2016)a

Mild Cognitive Impairment, Early Alzheimerā€™s disease

Covered domains: attention and concentration, executive functions, memory, language, visuoconstructional skills, conceptual thinking, calculations, orientation

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV) (Wechsler et al., 2010)

Cognitive impairment

Covered domains: attention, visual scanning, motor speed

Trail Making Test (TMT) (Reitan, 1958)

Cognitive impairment

Assesses: visual-conceptual and visual-motor tracking, sustained attention and task alternation abilities

Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) (Lezak, 1995)

Memory and learning capacity

Evaluates short- and long-term verbal memory assessing the ability to learn a list of 15 common words

Anxiety and Depression Goldberg Scale (Goldberg et al., 1988)a

Affective state

Includes nine depression and nine anxiety items from the past month

The Jong Gierveld loneliness scale (de Jong-Gierveld, 1987)

Emotional and social loneliness

Includes characteristics of the social network, background variables, personality characteristics, and evaluative aspects

Questionnaire QoL-AD (Logsdon et al., 2002)

Perceived quality of life

Self-rated quality of life for people with cognitive impairments

  1. aRodriguez-Larrad et al. [33]