Validation of the Chinese version of the Erlangen Test of Activities in Daily Living for people with mild to severe dementia

E-ADL-CN - validation study to test the convergent and discriminant validity as well as the reliability of the Chinese version of the Erlangen Test of Activities in Daily Living in people with mild to severe dementia in China

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN34113243

Enrollment

120

Registered

2025-06-17

Start date

2025-03-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-03-02

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Conditions

Dementia Nervous System Diseases

Interventions

The E-ADL-CN is a standardized performance test consisting of five tasks: Task 1: Making Honey Water (i.e. using the spoon to scoop one spoonful of honey into the cup, pour an appropriate amount of w

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Criteria of the dementia syndrome according to ICD-10 2. Mild to severe dementia according to the Mini-Mental-Status Examination (MMSE): 0 < MMSE score < 24 (CAVE: People with very severe dementia, i.e., MMSE = 0, are excluded) 3. Basic language skills as well as reading and spelling skills (Chinese) 4. Informed consent given

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Very severe dementia, i.e. MMSE = 0 2. Completely blind or deaf 3. Permanently unable to get out of bed/ immobile 4. Did not graduate from elementary school, i.e. less than 6 years in elementary school 5. Unable to communicate (does not respond to simple closed questions) 6. Diagnosis of another disease that causes cognitive impairment: 6.1. Vascular events (e.g. multiple strokes) 6.2. Parkinson’s disease 6.3. Multiple Sclerosis 6.4. Severe brain disease (e.g. tumor, injury, hydrocephalus) 6.5. Psychosis (e.g. schizophrenia, mania, bipolar psychosis) 6.6. Depression 6.7. Alcohol abuse/drug consumption (addiction) or Korsakoff syndrome 7. Concrete plans/vision to move out of the nursing home

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Activities of Daily living measured with the Culturally adapted, Chinese version of the Erlangen Test of Activities in Daily Living (E-ADL-CN) at baseline	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Measured at baseline: 1. Behavioral and psychological symptoms (agitation and aggression) measured by the validated Chinese version of the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory – Short Form (CMAI-SF) 2. Behavioral and psychological symptoms (depression) measured by the mood subscale of the NOSGER scale 3. Sociodemographic data: age, gender, education, care-index (official care degree of care necessary) 4. Cognition measured by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) at baseline 5. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) measured by the Lawton IADL Scale 6. Activities of Daily Living (ADL) measured by the Lawton ADL Scale	—

Measure

Time frame

Measured at baseline: 1. Behavioral and psychological symptoms (agitation and aggression) measured by the validated Chinese version of the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory – Short Form (CMAI-SF) 2. Behavioral and psychological symptoms (depression) measured by the mood subscale of the NOSGER scale 3. Sociodemographic data: age, gender, education, care-index (official care degree of care necessary) 4. Cognition measured by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) at baseline 5. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) measured by the Lawton IADL Scale 6. Activities of Daily Living (ADL) measured by the Lawton ADL Scale

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Countries

China

Contacts

Public ContactElmar;Yu Graessel;Liu

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elmar.graessel@fau.de;liuyu@cmu.edu.cn+49 (0)913185-34142;+86 (0)18640068209

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Mar 14, 2026