.. docs/source/tasks/moca.rst
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.. _moca:
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
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.. include:: include_permission_contextual.rst
.. include:: include_requires_institutional_permission.rst
.. include:: include_data_collection_plus_local_upgrade.rst
History and guide
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Original: Nasreddine et al. (2005), https://www.pubmed.gov/15817019.
In a study of normal controls, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and mild
Alzheimer's disease (AlzD), a MoCA score of <26 had 90% sensitivity for MCI,
100% sensitivity for AlzD, and a specificity of 87% (Nasreddine et al. 2005).
Source
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http://www.mocatest.org
Intellectual property rights
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- Copyright © Ziad S. Nasreddine. See https://www.mocatest.org/.
- Initially, in Sep 2012:
- Reproducible without permission for non-commercial clinical/educational
use.
- Permission required for research or commercial use.
- No special restrictions were placed on electronic versions.
- As per http://www.mocatest.org/permission.asp, accessed 2012-09-13, now
gone but archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20120904234436/http://www.mocatest.org/permission.asp.
- **Update,** Mar 2021:
- As of Apr 2021 (delayed from Sep 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic),
it is now "mandatory" to be trained (by the MoCA group) to use the MoCA.
The site adds: "If you wish to continue using the MoCA Test without being
officially trained and certified, you will be at increased risk for
administration, scoring and interpretation errors which could lead to
misdiagnosis and liability". See https://www.mocatest.org/permission/,
accessed 2021-03-16, archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20210226172214/https://www.mocatest.org/permission/.
- Development of electronic versions is now prohibited.
- Note that a MoCA app was released in May 2017
(see
https://web.archive.org/web/20210118041142/https://www.mocatest.org/faq/)
and is available (for iOS) from
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moca-app/id1206246590.
- It remains that case that for "Universities / Foundations / Health
Professionals / Hospitals / Clinics / Public Health Institutes", "MoCA© may
be used, reproduced, and distributed WITHOUT permission" for clinical
and educational use, and "WITH permission" for research use (*ibidem*).
- As a result of the new prohibition on electronic reproduction,
**the MoCA can no longer be properly functional within CamCOPS** (your
institution would need to obtain specific permissions to reproduce it
electronically, and ensure that all users are suitably trained).
- Old CamCOPS data will not be deleted, of course; the data are separate from
the task. The task persists as a "skeleton" without actual task content.
Unlike most such tasks, you cannot even create a new "skeleton" (this would
be too misleading).
- See also alternatives, e.g. the :ref:`ACE-III `.