Mini-Mental Status Examination

The Mini-Mental status examination is a quick and easy means of assessing cognitive function, not mood or thought processes. It can be used for both initial and serial measurements to follow a client over time. The examination is used to detect dementia and delirium. In addition, the examination is used to differentiate organic disorders from psychiatric illnesses. As with other skills, practice increases both competence and self-confidence in carrying out this assessment. In interpretating the scores of a mini mental examination:

the maximum score that a person can achieve on the test is 30
people with normal mental status achieve a score of 27 on the test
scores below 24 can indicate that there is cognitive impairment.

The Mini-Mental Status assessment provided below was used in the video, it is from Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR: Mini-mental state, J Psychiatr Res 12:189-198, 1975. Reprinted with permission. (c) 1975, 1998 Mini-Mental LLC.
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(Jarvis, 2016)

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