σ value p value Sex ratio -0.121 0.2866 Educational level 0.148 0.1901 Age at dementia onset -0.143 0.2066 Age at testing -0.221 0.0513 FAST score -0.588 <0.0001* Delusions 0.136 0.2280 Hallucinations 0.111 0.3279 Activity disturbance -0.274 0.0157 Aggressiveness -0.181 0.1093 Rhythm disturbance -0.473 <0.0001* Affective disturbance 0.264 0.0196* Anxiety 0.134 0.2262 AD: Alzheimer’s disease MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination FAST: Functional Assessment Staging BEHAVE-AD: behavioral pathology in Alzheimer’s disease rating scale delusions: paranoid and delusional ideation, rhythm disturbance: diurnal rhythm disturbances, anxiety: anxieties and phobias p<0.05*.

Table 2: Correlations between the MMSE score and clinical variables (demographic data and each BEHAVE-AD domain).

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