.. docs/source/tasks/moca.rst .. Copyright (C) 2012, University of Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry. Created by Rudolf Cardinal (rnc1001@cam.ac.uk). . This file is part of CamCOPS. . CamCOPS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . CamCOPS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with CamCOPS. If not, see . .. _moca: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) ------------------------------------ .. include:: include_permission_contextual.rst .. include:: include_requires_institutional_permission.rst .. include:: include_data_collection_plus_local_upgrade.rst History and guide ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~ http://www.mocatest.org Intellectual property rights ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - 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 `.