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Reliability of cognitive tests of ELSA-Brasil, the brazilian longitudinal study of adult health

Cognitive function evaluation entails the use of neuropsychological tests, applied exclusively or in sequence. The results of these tests may be influenced by factors related to the environment, the interviewer or the interviewee. OBJECTIVES: We examined the test-retest reliability of some tests of...

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Autores principales: Batista, Juliana Alves, Giatti, Luana, Barreto, Sandhi Maria, Galery, Ana Roscoe Papini, Passos, Valéria Maria de Azeredo
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Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642013DN74000003
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author Batista, Juliana Alves
Giatti, Luana
Barreto, Sandhi Maria
Galery, Ana Roscoe Papini
Passos, Valéria Maria de Azeredo
author_facet Batista, Juliana Alves
Giatti, Luana
Barreto, Sandhi Maria
Galery, Ana Roscoe Papini
Passos, Valéria Maria de Azeredo
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description Cognitive function evaluation entails the use of neuropsychological tests, applied exclusively or in sequence. The results of these tests may be influenced by factors related to the environment, the interviewer or the interviewee. OBJECTIVES: We examined the test-retest reliability of some tests of the Brazilian version from the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease. METHODS: The ELSA-Brasil is a multicentre study of civil servants (35-74 years of age) from public institutions across six Brazilian States. The same tests were applied, in different order of appearance, by the same trained and certified interviewer, with an approximate 20-day interval, to 160 adults (51% men, mean age 52 years). The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) was used to assess the reliability of the measures; and a dispersion graph was used to examine the patterns of agreement between them. RESULTS: We observed higher retest scores in all tests as well as a shorter test completion time for the Trail Making Test B. ICC values for each test were as following: Word List Learning Test (0.56), Word Recall (0.50), Word Recognition (0.35), Phonemic Verbal Fluency Test (VFT, 0.61), Semantic VFT (0.53) and Trail B (0.91). The Bland-Altman plot showed better correlation of executive function (VFT and Trail B) than of memory tests. CONCLUSIONS: Better performance in retest may reflect a learning effect, and suggest that retest should be repeated using alternate forms or after longer periods. In this sample of adults with high schooling level, reliability was only moderate for memory tests whereas the measurement of executive function proved more reliable.
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spelling pubmed-56194972017-12-06 Reliability of cognitive tests of ELSA-Brasil, the brazilian longitudinal study of adult health Batista, Juliana Alves Giatti, Luana Barreto, Sandhi Maria Galery, Ana Roscoe Papini Passos, Valéria Maria de Azeredo Dement Neuropsychol Original Articles Cognitive function evaluation entails the use of neuropsychological tests, applied exclusively or in sequence. The results of these tests may be influenced by factors related to the environment, the interviewer or the interviewee. OBJECTIVES: We examined the test-retest reliability of some tests of the Brazilian version from the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease. METHODS: The ELSA-Brasil is a multicentre study of civil servants (35-74 years of age) from public institutions across six Brazilian States. The same tests were applied, in different order of appearance, by the same trained and certified interviewer, with an approximate 20-day interval, to 160 adults (51% men, mean age 52 years). The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) was used to assess the reliability of the measures; and a dispersion graph was used to examine the patterns of agreement between them. RESULTS: We observed higher retest scores in all tests as well as a shorter test completion time for the Trail Making Test B. ICC values for each test were as following: Word List Learning Test (0.56), Word Recall (0.50), Word Recognition (0.35), Phonemic Verbal Fluency Test (VFT, 0.61), Semantic VFT (0.53) and Trail B (0.91). The Bland-Altman plot showed better correlation of executive function (VFT and Trail B) than of memory tests. CONCLUSIONS: Better performance in retest may reflect a learning effect, and suggest that retest should be repeated using alternate forms or after longer periods. In this sample of adults with high schooling level, reliability was only moderate for memory tests whereas the measurement of executive function proved more reliable. Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC5619497/ /pubmed/29213860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642013DN74000003 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Passos, Valéria Maria de Azeredo
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title_short Reliability of cognitive tests of ELSA-Brasil, the brazilian longitudinal study of adult health
title_sort reliability of cognitive tests of elsa-brasil, the brazilian longitudinal study of adult health
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642013DN74000003
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