Feasibility and Acceptability of the Informant AD8 for Cognitive Screening in Primary Healthcare: A Pilot Study

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	n (%)
Mean age (mean ± sd)	72.1 ± 8.7
Years of education (mean ± sd)	5.8 ± 5.1
Gender
Female	123 (60.0)
Male	82 (40.0)
Ethnicity
Chinese	166 (81.0)
Malay	24 (11.7)
Indian	12 (5.9)
Others	3 (1.5)
Language
Chinese	119 (58.0)
English	61 (29.8)
Malay	19 (9.3)
Tamil	6 (2.9)
Living situation
Spouse and adult children	92 (44.9)
Adult children only	57 (27.8)
Spouse only	36 (17.6)
Alone	12 (5.9)
Others	8 (3.9)
Composite number of medical conditions (mean ± sd)	2.2 ± 1.1
Hypertension	151 (75.9)
Hyperlipidemia	148 (74.7)
Diabetes	89 (44.7)
Stroke	24 (12.1)
Smoking	17 (8.5)
TIA	3 (1.5)
Depression	2 (1.0)
Accompanied by informant	136 (66.3)