استعرض مصدر 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

==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 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 ==
نتائج ترجمة إختبار النسخة العربية لإختبار الطلاقة اللفظية للحروف وللمجموعات [[Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III]].

== ملاحظات ==
تم إنتاج نسخة عربية من الإختبار 
 	 
== رابط ==
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[[تصنيف:قطاع المنشورات والبحوث]]
[[تصنيف:قطاع المصطلحات والمعايير]]
[[تصنيف:Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III]]
[[تصنيف:Tarik Qassem]]
[[تصنيف:Mohamed Khater]]
[[تصنيف:Tamer Emara]]
[[تصنيف:Doha Rasheedy]]
[[تصنيف:Heba M. Tawfik]]
[[تصنيف:Ahmed S. Mohammedin]]
[[تصنيف:Mohammad Tolba]]
[[تصنيف:Karim Abdel Aziz]]
[[تصنيف:طبنفس المسنين في مصر]]