(Normative Data for Healthy Younger Adults Performance on the Egyptian-Arabic Modified Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III (m-ACE-III)

Normative Data for Healthy Younger Adults Performance on the Egyptian-Arabic Modified Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III (m-ACE-III)

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

عنوان البحث

Letter and Category Fluency Across the Lifespan in Healthy Egyptian Adults

تاريخ النشر

2014

جهة النشر

Royal College of Psychiatrists international Congress 2014

مجال البحث

طبنفس مسنين

نوع البحث

بوستر

تصنيف البحث

طبنفس مسنين

URL

الموقع الالكترونى للبحث https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263853935_Letter_and_Category_Fluency_Across_the_Lifespan_in_Healthy_Egyptian_Adults

تاريخ قبول البحث

2014

عدد الصفحات

1

مكان إجراء البحث

مصر

ملخص البحث باللغة الاصلية

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 EgypLan-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 cogniLvely healthy volunteers (54.6% men, 45.4% women) aged between 20 and 91 years (mean= 50.1 years). We straLfied the parLcipants by degree of educaLon (reads and writes, primary, preparatory, secondary, vocaLonal or university educaLon) and social class (very low, low, middle and high). None of the parLcipants had any complaints of cogniLve decline or history of neurological or psychiatric illness.

Results: In le&er fluency tasks, mean number of words generated in one minute beginning with the Arabic le&er “Sheen” (pronounced “sh”) was 8.17 (SD=3.28). Le&er fluency was significantly influenced by bi/mulLlingualism (p=0.017, regression co-efficient=1.683), and by degree of educaLon (p=0.001, regression co-efficient=0.811). In le&er 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/mulLlingualism (p=0.045, regression co-efficient=2.184), age (p<0.001, regression co-efficient=-.116 ) and educaLon (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 normaLve data for le&er and category fluency in the EgypLan-Arabic populaLon and idenLfy a number of factors influencing them. While age significantly affects category fluency, it does not have an influence on le&er fluency. Bi/mulLlingualism significantly affected le&er fluency, but not category fluency. Degree of educaLon significantly affected both, while gender and social class had no effect on either.

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