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The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE; Folstein, Folstein, low education participants (1-4 years) would be classified with moderate cognitive alterations (M = 20.61). Sensitivity and specificity of the MMSE were established. Low sensitivity and specificity were found for both the participants with 0 and 1 to 4 years of schooling, 50% and 72.73%, respectively. In participants with more than 5 years of schooling, the specificity (86.36%) and sensitivity (86.36%) indexes were higher. We concluded that the MMSE is an instrument with little diagnostic utility among participants with a low level of education.
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