Normative Data for Neuropsychological Tests in a Rural Elderly Chinese Cohort
Autor: | Chaoke Liang, Jill R. Murrell, Sujuan Gao, Jianchao Bian, Lili Yang, Kathleen S. Hall, Ping Li, Feng Ma, Hugh C. Hendrie, Yibin Cheng, Yinlong Jin, Jingxiang Cao, Frederick W. Unverzagt |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Rural Population Aging China Cross-sectional study Neuropsychological Tests Article Developmental psychology Executive Function Cognition Sex Factors Asian People Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Memory Reference Values Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Dementia Aged Language Aged 80 and over medicine.diagnostic_test Recall Neuropsychology Neuropsychological test medicine.disease Test (assessment) Cognitive test Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | The Clinical Neuropsychologist. 26:641-653 |
ISSN: | 1744-4144 1385-4046 |
Popis: | Normative information is important for appropriate interpretation of cognitive test scores as a critical component of dementia diagnosis in the elderly population. A cross-sectional evaluation of 1826 participants aged 65 years and older from four rural counties in China was conducted using six cognitive instruments including tests of global cognitive function (the Community Screening Instrument for Dementia), Memory (Word List Learning and Recall tasks from the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease, IU Story), Language (Animal Fluency Test), and executive function (IU Token). Multiple regression models adjusting for demographic variables were used to provide standardized residuals z-scores and corresponding percentile ranking for each cognitive test. In all cognitive tests, older age was associated with worse test performance while exposure to education was related to better cognitive test performance. We also detected a significant gender difference with men scoring better than women and a significant gender by education interaction on two tests. The interaction indicates that gender difference in test scores was much smaller in participants with more education than those who had less or no education. These demographically adjusted, regression-based norms can be a useful tool to clinicians involved with differential diagnosis of cognitive and memory disorders in older adults in rural China. |
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