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Online Assessment of Cognitive Functioning: A Reliable Alternative to Laboratory Testing?

As the population ages, risks for cognitive decline threaten independence and quality of life for older adults. Classically, psychological assessment tools to evaluate cognitive functioning are administered in face-to-face laboratory sessions, which is time- and resource-consuming. With the aim of r...

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Autores principales: Haas, Maximilian, Zuber, Sascha, Framorando, David, Khawli, Elissa El, Scheibe, Susanne, Kliegel, Matthias
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741825/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1917
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author Haas, Maximilian
Zuber, Sascha
Framorando, David
Khawli, Elissa El
Scheibe, Susanne
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description As the population ages, risks for cognitive decline threaten independence and quality of life for older adults. Classically, psychological assessment tools to evaluate cognitive functioning are administered in face-to-face laboratory sessions, which is time- and resource-consuming. With the aim of reducing such costs, the present study set out to develop and validate two new online tools, allowing a rapid assessment of general cognitive abilities and of prospective memory. We collected data from 250 participants equally spread across the adult lifespan (aged 18 – 86). Results suggest that performance assessed via these newly developed online tools is comparable to performance in face-to-face laboratory settings. Our findings thereby indicate that these online tools can reliably measure cognitive functioning across the lifespan at a reduced cost, which may help detect individuals at risk of developing age-related cognitive disorders.
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spelling pubmed-77418252020-12-21 Online Assessment of Cognitive Functioning: A Reliable Alternative to Laboratory Testing? Haas, Maximilian Zuber, Sascha Framorando, David Khawli, Elissa El Scheibe, Susanne Kliegel, Matthias Innov Aging Abstracts As the population ages, risks for cognitive decline threaten independence and quality of life for older adults. Classically, psychological assessment tools to evaluate cognitive functioning are administered in face-to-face laboratory sessions, which is time- and resource-consuming. With the aim of reducing such costs, the present study set out to develop and validate two new online tools, allowing a rapid assessment of general cognitive abilities and of prospective memory. We collected data from 250 participants equally spread across the adult lifespan (aged 18 – 86). Results suggest that performance assessed via these newly developed online tools is comparable to performance in face-to-face laboratory settings. Our findings thereby indicate that these online tools can reliably measure cognitive functioning across the lifespan at a reduced cost, which may help detect individuals at risk of developing age-related cognitive disorders. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7741825/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1917 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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