Validation of the standard assessment of global everyday activities (SAGEA) scale for dementia diagnosis
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Standardised questionnaires of cognitive symptoms and cognitive-related function can assist in diagnosing dementia. The Standardised Assessment of Global Everyday Activities (SAGEA) is a 15-item questionnaire, developed to measure functional status by capturing cognitive symptoms, basic and instrumental activities of daily living, participation in activites, and mobility. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to validate the SAGEA as a tool for assessing cognitive dysfunction in dementia. METHODS: Participants with dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or subjective cognitive decline (SCD) were selected from the clinic-based Prospective Registry for Persons with Memory Symptoms (PROMPT), and cognitively asymptomatic, unimpaired controls were selected from the Canadian Platform for Research Online to Investigate Health, Quality of Life, Cognition, Behaviour, Function and Caregiving in Ageing study. RESULTS: SAGEA scores correlated well with the Lawton-Brody scale for instrumental activities of daily living (r = -0.68, P < 0.0001). SAGEA scores differed significantly across participant groups, highest for individuals with dementia (17.7 ± 8.59) followed by MCI (10.8 ± 9.10), SCD (8.07 ± 7.06) and controls (1.60 ± 2.07). The SAGEA classified dementia with an AUC of 0.97, sensitivity of 94.5% and specificity of 94.6% at a cut-off point of ≥6 points based on Youden's index. A dementia diagnosis algorithm based on the SAGEA distinguished dementia from controls with a sensitivity of 68% and specificity of 100%. CONCLUSIONS: This study supports the utility of the SAGEA as an adjunct to diagnosing dementia and a potentially useful screening tool.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".