Letter and Category Fluency Across the Lifespan in Healthy Egyptian Adults
Letter and Category Fluency Across the Lifespan in Healthy Egyptian Adults
Tarik Qassem, Mohamed Khater, Tamer Emara, Doha Rasheedy, Heba M. Tawfik, Ahmed S. Mohammedin, Mohammad Tolba, Karim Abdel Aziz
Royal College of Psychiatrists international Congress 2014
محتويات
عنوان البحث[عدل]
Letter and Category Fluency Across the Lifespan in Healthy Egyptian Adults
تاريخ النشر[عدل]
2014
جهة النشر[عدل]
Royal College of Psychiatrists international Congress 2014
مجال البحث[عدل]
طبنفس مسنين
نوع البحث[عدل]
بوستر
تصنيف البحث[عدل]
طبنفس مسنين
URL[عدل]
الموقع الالكترونى للبحث https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263853935_Letter_and_Category_Fluency_Across_the_Lifespan_in_Healthy_Egyptian_Adults
تاريخ قبول البحث[عدل]
2014
عدد الصفحات[عدل]
1
مكان إجراء البحث[عدل]
مصر
ملخص البحث باللغة الاصلية[عدل]
Objective: To investigate factors affecting letter and category fluency across the lifespan in an apparently healthy sample of Egyptian adults.
Background: There is limited published data on verbal fluency in Arabic-speaking populations and none in Egyptian-Arabic, so we undertook to establish norms of letter and category fluency in the Egyptian Arabic-speaking population as part of a wider effort to establish normative data in cognitive testing in the Egyptian population.
Methods: We evaluated 130 cognitively healthy volunteers (54.6% men, 45.4% women) aged between 20 and 91 years (mean = 50.1 years). We stratified the participants by degree of education (reads and writes, primary, preparatory, secondary, vocational or university education) and social class (very low, low, middle and high). None of the participants had any complaints of cognitive decline or history of neurological or psychiatric illness.
Results: In letter fluency tasks, mean number of words generated in one minute beginning with the Arabic letter “Sheen” (pronounced “sh”) was 8.17 (SD=3.28). Letter fluency was significantly influenced by bi/multilingualism (p=0.017, regression co-efficient=1.683), and by degree of education (p=0.001, regression co-efficient=0.811). In letter fluency task, age had no significant effect (p>0.05). In category fluency tasks, mean number of names of animals in one minute was 14.85 (SD=5.376). Category fluency was significantly influenced by bi/multilingualism (p=0.045, regression co-efficient=2.184), age (p<0.001, regression co-efficient=-.116 ) and education (p=0.037, regression co-efficient=0.711). In either tasks gender and social class had no significant effect (p>0.05).
Conclusions: In this study we were able to establish normative data for letter and category fluency in the Egyptian-Arabic population and identify a number of factors influencing them. While age significantly affects category fluency, it does not have an influence on letter fluency. Bi/mulLlingualism significantly affected letter fluency, but not category fluency. Degree of education significantly affected both, while gender and social class had no effect on either.
ملخص البحث باللغة العربية[عدل]
نتائج ترجمة إختبار النسخة العربية لإختبار الطلاقة اللفظية للحروف وللمجموعات Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III.
ملاحظات[عدل]
تم إنتاج نسخة عربية من الإختبار
