Normative data for healthy adult performance on the Egyptian–Arabic Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III
Normative data for healthy adult performance on the Egyptian–Arabic Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III
Tarik Qassem Mohamed Khater Tamer Emara Doha Rasheedy Heba M. Tawfik Ahmed S. Mohammedin Mohammad Tolba Karim Abdel Aziz
Middle East Current Psychiatry 01/2015; 22(1):27–36. DOI: 10.1097/01.XME.0000457267.05731.0f
BACKGROUND:
The
Addenbrooke’s
Cogni've
Examina'on
III
ACE-‐III
(2012)
is
a
brief
cogni've
baTery
that
assesses
various
aspects
of
cogni'on.
Its
5
subdomains
(ATen'on
and
Orienta'on,
Memory,
Verbal
Fluency,
Language,
and
Visuospa'al
Abili'es)
are
commonly
impaired
in
demen'as.
OBJECTIVES:
To
describe
the
qualita've
process
of
selec'on,
transla'on
and
cultural
adapta'on
of
ACE-‐III
for
use
in
the
Egyp'an-‐Arabic
speaking
popula'on.
METHOD:
First,
the
ques'onnaire
was
translated
into
Arabic,
and
then
back-‐translated
into
English.
The
process
was
then
repeated
un'l
a
consensus
was
reached
about
the
op'mal
transla'on.
In
addi'on,
we
modified
the
test
to
culturally
adapt
it
to
the
Egyp'an
popula'on.
We
modified
the
following
parts
of
the
ACE
III:
LeTer
fluency,
Name
and
address
registra'on
task,
Knowledge
memory
task,
Language
repeon
tasks,
Picture
naming
and
recogni'on,
Reading,
Recogni'on
of
camouflaged
pictures.
The
modified
ACE
III
was
then
piloted
on
20
subjects
with
no
complaint
of
cogni've
impairment.
RESULTS:
Pilot
subjects
included
13
males
and
7
female.
The
mean
age
of
the
subjects
was
42.85
(SD=18.32)
years.
Performance
on
the
culturally-‐adopted
items
was
as
follows:
on
LeTer
fluency
subjects
generated
an
average
of
9.95
(SD=3.22)
words
per
minute.
Category
fluency
subjects
generated
an
average
of
31
(SD=15.7)
words
per
minute.
On
comprehension,
proverb
repeon
and
reading
fragmented
leTers,
the
subjects
made
no
errors.
85%
(n=17)
of
the
subjects
made
no
errors
on
knowledge
task.
On
word
repeon,
95%
(n=19)
of
the
subjects
made
no
errors.
Of
the
6
culturally-‐adapted
pictures
for
the
Egyp'an
popula'on,
100%
(n=20)
of
the
subjects
were
able
to
correctly
iden'fy
the
lion,
Aud
(Lute),
and
Lamp;
95%
(n=19)
of
the
subjects
were
able
to
correctly
iden'fy
a
giraffe;
90%
(n=18)
of
the
subjects
were
able
to
correctly
iden'fy
a
parrot;
and
only
55%
were
able
to
correctly
iden'fy
a
violin.
CONCLUSION:
Egyp'an
Arabic
m-‐ACE
III
appears
to
be
culturally
equivalent
aher
all
forms
of
biases
or
social
norms
specific
to
the
culture
of
origin
have been removed.
محتويات
عنوان البحث
Normative data for healthy adult performance on the Egyptian–Arabic Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III
تاريخ النشر
يناير 2015
جهة النشر
Middle East Current Psychiatry ==مجال البحث == طبنفس مسنين
نوع البحث
مقال
تصنيف البحث
طبنفس مسنين
URL
الموقع الالكترونى للبحث http://journals.lww.com/mecpsychiatry/Abstract/2015/01000/Normative_data_for_healthy_adult_performance_on.6.aspx
تاريخ قبول البحث
يناير 2015
عدد الصفحات
10
مكان إجراء البحث
مصر ==ملخص البحث باللغة الاصلية== Introduction: The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III (ACE-III) (2012) is a brief cognitive battery that assesses various aspects of cognition. Its five subdomains (attention and orientation, memory, verbal fluency, language and visuospatial abilities) are commonly impaired in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia.
Objective: The aim of the study was to provide normative data for healthy adult performance on Egyptian–Arabic ACE-III.
Participants and methods: We adapted the ACE-III (2012) to the Egyptian population. We evaluated this version on 139 cognitively healthy volunteers aged 20 years or older (54.7% male and 45.3% female). We stratified the participants both by age (<60 years and >60 years) and by degree of education (basic, secondary or university education). None of the participants had any complaints of cognitive decline.
Results: We established normative data for healthy Egyptian adults below 60 years and above 60 years on each of the subdomains of the ACE-III. The data generated from the performance was assigned according to percentiles. We found a significant difference (P<0.001) between the performance of older and younger adults on the category task of the verbal fluency test.
Conclusion: By adapting the ACE-III to the Egyptian–Arabic population, we were able to establish normative data for healthy Egyptian adults.
==ملخص البحث باللغة العربية == نتائج تطبيق إختبار النسخة العربية لإختبار أدينبروك للوظائف المعرفية على عينة من البالغين. تم ربط التعليم والأمية بنتائج الإختبار.
==ملاحظات == تم إنتاج نسخة عربية من الإختبار
