ムラヤマ ノリオ    Murayama Norio
   村山 憲男
   所属
人間社会学部 心理学科
 
生活機構研究科 心理学専攻
 
生活心理研究所 所属教員
   職種
准教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2020/01
形態種別 学術雑誌
査読 査読あり
標題 Evaluating depression in cognitively healthy elderly people by using Mini-Mental State Examination
執筆形態 共著
掲載誌名 Psychogeriatrics
掲載区分国外
巻・号・頁 20,pp.96-103
著者・共著者 Norio MURAYAMA, Kazumi OTA, Yusuke MATSUNAGA, Kanako ICHIKURA, Yuko FUKASE, Hirokuni TAGAYA, Eizo ISEKI, Kiyoshi SATO
概要 Aim: We examined a method for evaluating depression with the Mini-Mental State Examination in cognitively healthy elderly people and employed the projective perspective.
Methods: In MMSE three groups-normal, depressed tendency, and depressed-completed the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and a Japanese version of the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale. The Mini-Mental State Examination evaluated individuals' writing based on a sentence, the number of written words, and sentence content; it also assessed their copying of drawn figures.
Results: In the depressed group, the proportion corresponding to the characteristics of (i) to (iii) was higher than in the other two groups: (i) the calculation score was 0 or 1; (ii) subjects scored above the median in sentence writing relative to similar subjects with the same language and clinical setting; and (iii) subjects expressed feelings in their writing. One point was given for each characteristic, and we calculated the sum. Depressed subjects had a score ≥2.
Conclusions: This evaluation method can differentiate depressed subjects with high accuracy (sensitivity: 77.8%, specificity: 76.4%) without placing an extra burden on the subjects.