Running head: BIMS COMPARED TO BCAT
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Brief Interview for Mental Status Compared to Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool
Joshua Hall
Emporia State University
April 30, 2017
BIMS COMPARED TO BCAT
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Brief Interview for Mental Status Compared to Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool.
The primary goal of the study is to determine which instrument is more sensitive in identifying degrees of cognitive functioning. This article is attempting to exemplify the differences between a brief interview for mental status and a brief cognitive assessment tool in a nursing home setting with two hundred twenty nine individuals. The requirements needed to be a part of the study was for the person to complete a BIMS and BCAT assessment and be sixty years or older which dwindled the …show more content…
Having a solid understanding of a patient’s cognitive function in a nursing home, such as depression and dementia, could help give the patient the care they need.
A brief interview for mental status (BIMS) is the mandated cognitive tool. It provides an efficient measurement that provides strong reliability and convergent validity, can be rapidly administered, and is suited for paraprofessional use (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). The short comings associated with the BIMS tools are it is not designed to be sensitive towards the full cognitive continuum and does not stage dementia levels (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). It also falls short with memory as this tool only uses a three word recall rather than a brief recall of a story. Story recall has syntactic and other contextual elements largely absent from word lists that may differentially affect recall and learning (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). The BIMS focuses on two domains of cognitive function: memory and orientation. Scores range from 0 to
15 with lower scores indicating an increasing likelihood of cognitive impairment (Mansbach,
BIMS COMPARED TO BCAT
1
Brief Interview for Mental Status Compared to Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool
Joshua Hall
Emporia State University
April 30, 2017
BIMS COMPARED TO BCAT
2
Brief Interview for Mental Status Compared to Brief Cognitive Assessment Tool.
The primary goal of the study is to determine which instrument is more sensitive in identifying degrees of cognitive functioning. This article is attempting to exemplify the differences between a brief interview for mental status and a brief cognitive assessment tool in a nursing home setting with two hundred twenty nine individuals. The requirements needed to be a part of the study was for the person to complete a BIMS and BCAT assessment and be sixty years or older which dwindled the …show more content…
Having a solid understanding of a patient’s cognitive function in a nursing home, such as depression and dementia, could help give the patient the care they need.
A brief interview for mental status (BIMS) is the mandated cognitive tool. It provides an efficient measurement that provides strong reliability and convergent validity, can be rapidly administered, and is suited for paraprofessional use (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). The short comings associated with the BIMS tools are it is not designed to be sensitive towards the full cognitive continuum and does not stage dementia levels (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). It also falls short with memory as this tool only uses a three word recall rather than a brief recall of a story. Story recall has syntactic and other contextual elements largely absent from word lists that may differentially affect recall and learning (Mansbach, Mace, & Clark, 2014). The BIMS focuses on two domains of cognitive function: memory and orientation. Scores range from 0 to
15 with lower scores indicating an increasing likelihood of cognitive impairment (Mansbach,
BIMS COMPARED TO BCAT