Letter and Category Fluency Across the Lifespan in Healthy Egyptian Adults
Letter and Category Fluency Across the Lifespan in Healthy Egyptian Adults
Royal College of Psychiatrists international Congress 2014
محتويات
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
jec<ve: To invesLgate factors affecLng le&er and category fluency across the lifespan in an apparently healthy sample of EgypLan adults. Background: There is limited published data on verbal fluency in Arabic-speaking populaLons and none in EgypLan-Arabic, so we undertook to establish norms of le&er and category fluency in the EgypLan Arabic-speaking populaLon as part of a wider effort to establish normaLve data in cogniLve tesLng in the EgypLan populaLon.
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.
ملخص البحث باللغة العربية
نتائج ترجمة إختبار النسخة العربية لإختبار الطلاقة اللفظية للحروف وللمجموعات.
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