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Split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults

Executive function is vital for normal social, cognitive, and motor functions. Executive function decline due to aging increases the risk of disability and falls in older adults, which has become an urgent public health issue. Fast and convenient neuropsychological tools are thus needed to identify...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Zhengkang, Yang, Li-Zhuang, Vékony, Teodóra, Wang, Changqing, Li, Hai
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Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36944861
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02104-6
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author Zhang, Zhengkang
Yang, Li-Zhuang
Vékony, Teodóra
Wang, Changqing
Li, Hai
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Yang, Li-Zhuang
Vékony, Teodóra
Wang, Changqing
Li, Hai
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description Executive function is vital for normal social, cognitive, and motor functions. Executive function decline due to aging increases the risk of disability and falls in older adults, which has become an urgent public health issue. Fast and convenient neuropsychological tools are thus needed to identify high-risk groups as early as possible to conduct a timely intervention. Card sorting tasks, such as Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) and its variants, are popular tools for measuring executive function. This study investigated the reliability of an open-source, self-administered, online, short-version card sorting task with a sample of young (n = 107, 65 females, age: M = 30.1 years, SD = 5.5 years) and elderly Chinese (n = 113, 53 females, age: M = 64.0 years, SD = 6.7 years). We developed an automated scoring and visualization procedure following the recent recommendations on scoring perseverative responses to make the results comparable to the standardized WCST. Reliability estimates of commonly used measures were calculated using the split-half method. All task indices' reliabilities were reasonably good in both old and young groups except for "failure-to-maintain-set." Elderly Chinese adults showed compromised task performance on all measures compared with the young Chinese adults at the group level. The R script of automated scoring and estimation of reliability is publicly available. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13428-023-02104-6.
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spelling pubmed-100300792023-03-22 Split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults Zhang, Zhengkang Yang, Li-Zhuang Vékony, Teodóra Wang, Changqing Li, Hai Behav Res Methods Article Executive function is vital for normal social, cognitive, and motor functions. Executive function decline due to aging increases the risk of disability and falls in older adults, which has become an urgent public health issue. Fast and convenient neuropsychological tools are thus needed to identify high-risk groups as early as possible to conduct a timely intervention. Card sorting tasks, such as Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST) and its variants, are popular tools for measuring executive function. This study investigated the reliability of an open-source, self-administered, online, short-version card sorting task with a sample of young (n = 107, 65 females, age: M = 30.1 years, SD = 5.5 years) and elderly Chinese (n = 113, 53 females, age: M = 64.0 years, SD = 6.7 years). We developed an automated scoring and visualization procedure following the recent recommendations on scoring perseverative responses to make the results comparable to the standardized WCST. Reliability estimates of commonly used measures were calculated using the split-half method. All task indices' reliabilities were reasonably good in both old and young groups except for "failure-to-maintain-set." Elderly Chinese adults showed compromised task performance on all measures compared with the young Chinese adults at the group level. The R script of automated scoring and estimation of reliability is publicly available. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13428-023-02104-6. Springer US 2023-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10030079/ /pubmed/36944861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02104-6 Text en © The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults
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title_fullStr Split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults
title_full_unstemmed Split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults
title_short Split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults
title_sort split-half reliability estimates of an online card sorting task in a community sample of young and elderly adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36944861
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02104-6
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