Six-item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT)- Dementia

Six-item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT)- is a brief screening tool that included questions about orientation, memory and attention. It can be used by practitioners to support the identification of mild cognitive impairment or the early signs of dementia.

The 6CIT is a much newer cognitive function test than the AMT (see ‘Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT)’, below) and it would appear to be culturally and linguistically translatable with good probability statistics; however, it is held back by its more complex scoring system.

*There is guidance on system 1 on the 6CITS

Useful links

Screening for Cognitive Impairment (Cognitive Function Tests)