Age and education-matched cut-off scores for the revised German/Swiss-German version of ECAS.

Autor: Loose M; a Department of Neurology , Ulm University , Germany ., Burkhardt C; b Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Neuromuscular Disease Centre/ALS Clinic , Switzerland ., Aho-Özhan H; a Department of Neurology , Ulm University , Germany ., Keller J; a Department of Neurology , Ulm University , Germany ., Abdulla S; c Department of Neurology , Hanover Medical School .; d Department of Neurology , Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, and German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases , Magdeburg , Germany , and., Böhm S; a Department of Neurology , Ulm University , Germany ., Kollewe K; c Department of Neurology , Hanover Medical School ., Uttner I; a Department of Neurology , Ulm University , Germany ., Abrahams S; e Psychology-PPLS, Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research & Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, University of Edinburgh , UK., Petri S; c Department of Neurology , Hanover Medical School ., Weber M; b Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Neuromuscular Disease Centre/ALS Clinic , Switzerland ., Ludolph AC; a Department of Neurology , Ulm University , Germany ., Lulé D; a Department of Neurology , Ulm University , Germany .
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration [Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener] 2016 Jul-Aug; Vol. 17 (5-6), pp. 374-6. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Mar 30.
DOI: 10.3109/21678421.2016.1162814
Abstrakt: The Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) has been developed to assess cognition and behaviour in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Cognitive impairments of ALS-specific and ALS-non-specific functions can be determined using cut-off scores based on performance of healthy subjects. However, detailed analyses show that older healthy subjects perform worse than younger ones, whereas highly-educated individuals perform better than those with lower education levels. As a consequence, this study presents new age and education matched cut-off scores for the revised German/Swiss-German version of the ECAS based on the performance of 86 healthy subjects.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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