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OBJECTIVE:The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is used to estimate current cognitive status and as a screen for possible dementia. Missing item-level data are commonly reported. Attention to missing data is particularly important. However, there are concerns that common procedures for dealing with missing data, for example, listwise deletion and mean item substitution, are inadequate. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING:We used multiple imputation (MI) to estimate missing MMSE data in 17,303 participants who were drawn from the Dynamic Analyses to Optimize Aging project, a harmonization project of nine Australian longitudinal studies of aging. RESULTS:Our results indicated differences in mean MMSE scores between those participants with and without missing data, a pattern consistent over age and gender levels. MI inflated MMSE scores, but differences between those imputed and those without missing data still existed. A simulation model supported the efficacy of MI to estimate missing item level, although serious decrements in estimation occurred when 50% or more of item-level data were missing, particularly for the oldest participants. CONCLUSIONS:Our adaptation of MI to obtain a probable estimate for missing MMSE item level data provides a suitable method when the proportion of missing item-level data is not excessive.
journal_name
J Clin Epidemioljournal_title
Journal of clinical epidemiologyauthors
Burns RA,Butterworth P,Kiely KM,Bielak AA,Luszcz MA,Mitchell P,Christensen H,Von Sanden C,Anstey KJdoi
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.10.011subject
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2011-07-01 00:00:00pages
787-93issue
7eissn
0895-4356issn
1878-5921pii
S0895-4356(10)00363-Xjournal_volume
64pub_type
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