The Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery and Stroop test: normative values with age, education and gender corrections in an Italian population
The Rao's Brief Repeatable Battery and Stroop test: normative values with age, education and gender corrections in an Italian population
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10.1177/1352458506070933
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2006-12-01
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Trojano, M.
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Amato, M. P.;Portaccio, E.;Trojano, M.
简明可重复成套神经心理测试（BRB）是迄今为止最广泛使用的评估多发性硬化症（MS）患者认知功能障碍的工具。然而，目前缺乏规范性数据，限制了其适用性。我们对200名健康受试者进行了BRB，以获得正常值。此外，我们评估了人口因素对考试成绩的影响，并计算了这些相关因素的修正。为了测试BRB没有探索的执行功能，我们还包括Stroop单词颜色任务（ST）。除了世界列表生成（WLG）和ST（考虑版本A），以及符号数字模式测试（SDMT），起搏听觉序列添加测试（PASAT）和选择性延迟提醒测试（SRT-D）（考虑版本B）外，教育水平越高，所有测试的表现越好。女性在考虑版本A的WLG以及考虑版本B的SRT-长期储存（SRT-LTS）和SRT-一致性长期检索（SRT-CLTR）方面的表现优于男性。年龄增加与版本A中ST的性能较差以及版本B中SRT-LTS、SRT-CLTR和WLG的性能较差相关。我们的数据可以提高BRB在临床和研究中的适用性。
The Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychological Tests (BRB) is by far the most widely used instrument to estimate cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. However, the paucity of normative data currently limits its applicability. We administered the BRB to 200 healthy subjects to obtain normative values. Moreover, we assessed the influence of demographic factors on the test scores and calculated corrections for these relevant factors. To test executive functions not explored by the BRB, we also included the Stroop word-color task (ST). Higher educational level was associated with better performance on all the tests, except for the world list generation (WLG) and the ST, considering version A, and on Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT), Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) and Selective Reminding Test-Delayed (SRT-D), considering version B. Females performed better than males on the WLG considering version A, and on the SRT-Long Term Storage (SRT-LTS) and SRT-Consistent Long Term Retrieval (SRT-CLTR) considering version B. Increasing age was associated with worse performance on the ST in version A, and on the SRT-LTS, SRT-CLTR and WLG in version B. Our data can improve the applicability of the BRB for both clinical and research purposes.