Validation of the Test Your Memory (F-TYM Test) in a French Memory Clinic Population

Abstract

The Test Your Memory (TYM) test has been proposed for screening dementia. We present a French version and its validation in memory clinics. F-TYM was administered to 201 patients with memory complaints visiting five secondary referral hospital centers. Final diagnosis was dementia in 34%, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in 32%, non-amnestic MCI in 11%, absence of cognitive disorder in 23% and F-TYM scores were respectively (M ± SD) 30.9 ± 7.6, 40.5 ± 6.3, 44.3 ± 4.5 and 43.5 ± 6.6 (p < .0001). F-TYM showed high correlation with MMSE (r = .78), excellent internal consistency, no effect of educational level, sex, or mood but a significant effect of age (p = .004). A F-TYM score ≤ 39 had 0.90 sensitivity and 0.70 specificity for diagnosis of dementia. F-TYM was unable to discriminate MCI and patients without cognitive disorders. F-TYM could be proposed for screening of dementia in patients with memory complaints.

The Use Of The Hungarian Test Your Memory (Tym-hun), Mmse And Adas-cog Tests For Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment (Mci) In A Hungarian Population: A Cross-sectional Study

“…Based on this, the test has 85.7% and 76% sensitivity, 69% and 74% specificity respectively, while our results show that these values are 80 and 92% [21,22]. Polish and French investigators did not find the test useful in differentiating between MCI and healthy controls [23,24].…”

“…Japanese researchers in a larger sample, like us, found no difference in test scores with regard to gender and education level [22]. According to French data, there is no correlation between gender and years spent in education (p = 0.34) and performance on TYM, but this can be observed regarding age (p = 0.004) [24]. According to the Chilean study, the performance was influenced by the highest level of education (β coefficient = 0.31, p < 0.001), but age (p = 0.849) had no relation to performance on the TYM test [21].…”

The Test Your Memory cognitive screening tool: sociodemographic and cardiometabolic risk correlates in a population‐based study of older British men

“…The past four decades have seen growing interest in developing easy-to-administer cognitive screening tools with clinical utility for primary and secondary care settings (Larner, 2013;Zygouris and Tsolaki, 2014). One of the most promising tools is the Test Your Memory (TYM) cognitive test (Brown et al, 2009), which has sound psychometric properties (Brown et al, 2009;Hancock and Larner, 2011), remarkable cross-cultural validity (Hanyu et al, 2011;Abd-Al-Atty et al, 2012;Szczesniak et al, 2013;Ferrero-Arias and Turrion-Rojo, 2014;Iatraki et al, 2014;Muñoz-Neira et al, 2014;Postel-Vinay et al, 2014) and good concurrent validity with established tests, such as the Mini-mental state examination, and the Addenbrooke's cognitive examination test battery (Brown et al, 2009;van Schalkwyk et al, 2012;Koekkoek et al, 2013). However, studies using the TYM were conducted among small clinical samples and did not report on the sociodemographic and cardiometabolic correlates of TYM-defined cognitive groups.…”

The use of the Hungarian Test Your Memory (TYM-HUN), MMSE, and ADAS-Cog tests for patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in a Hungarian population: a cross-sectional study

“…Based on these results, the test has 85.7% and 76% sensitivity, 69% and 74% speci city respectively in the above mentioned studies, while our results show that these values are 80 and 92% [31,32]. Polish and French investigators did not nd the test useful in differentiating between MCI and HC [33,34].…”