Development of a Confrontation Naming Test For Spanish-speakers: The Cordoba Naming Test

Fernández, Alberto Luis

doi:10.1080/13854046.2013.822931

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“…The first one used the Confrontation Naming Test (z-score cutoff) and reported a sensitivity of 74% and a specificity of 77%. 27 The second one used the Boston Naming Test with education-specific cutoff scores ( Supplementary Table S2) and reported a sensitivity of 39% and a specificity of 89%. 28 The low sensitivity may result in some Argentinians with dementia remaining undiagnosed.…”

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Validity of Cognitive Assessment Tools for Older Adult Hispanics: A Systematic Review

Arévalo

Kress

Rodriguez

2019

J American Geriatrics Society

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OBJECTIVES A higher prevalence and incidence of dementia is found in Hispanic/Latino older adults. Therefore, valid instruments are necessary to assess cognitive functioning in this population group. Our aim was to review existing articles that have examined and reported on the validity of cognitive assessment tools in Hispanic/Latino population groups in the United States. DESIGN Systematic literature review according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐analysis. MEASUREMENTS We systematically searched in the PubMed and Web of Science databases and assessed the quality of the search results using the Standards for the Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies. We included evidence from within the United States as well as from Spanish‐speaking countries of origin (Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean). RESULTS The literature search revealed 27 studies with adequate quality that investigated 13 instruments. The Mini‐Mental Status Examination (MMSE) was the most frequently investigated instrument in Hispanic/Latino groups in the United States with high sensitivity for dementia but also with significant differences for ethnicity and education. The Addenbrooke Cognitive Examination‐Revised, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, 10/66 short diagnostic schedule, clock‐drawing test, Phototest, Eurotest, and Executive Battery 25 had good diagnostic performance in Spanish‐speaking countries. The naming test and verbal fluency tests have a higher risk of misclassifying US Hispanics/Latinos who have dementia. CONCLUSION Evidence on validity suggests that the MMSE may be an appropriate cognitive assessment tool for Hispanics. More research is needed to confirm the validity of cognitive tools to assess Hispanic/Latino groups for Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias in the United States to reduce current trends of culturally biased under‐ or overdiagnosis of cognitive impairments. J Am Geriatr Soc 68:882–888, 2020

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Section: Naming Testmentioning

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Validity of Cognitive Assessment Tools for Older Adult Hispanics: A Systematic Review

Arévalo

Kress

Rodriguez

2019

J American Geriatrics Society

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“…Items and administration procedures were designed to minimize cultural bias. Although this test has been carefully designed for assessment in different languages (i.e., English, Spanish, Chinese, and Hebrew), normative data and data on the validity of this test are scarce (Fernández, 2013). This test demonstrated positive results for bilingual assessment in patients with MCI and AD, with a sensitivity range of 80% to 88% in bilinguals, in a sample of 130 (68 with probable AD, 18 with amnestic MCI, and 44 controls) monolingual English speakers and 29 (18 with probable AD and 11 controls) Spanish–English bilinguals (Ivanova et al, 2013).…”

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Dementia-related neuropsychological testing considerations in non-Hispanic White and Latino/Hispanic populations.

Burke¹,

Naseh²,

Rodriguez³

et al. 2019

Psychology & Neuroscience

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Hispanic individuals are at greater risk for health disparities, less than optimal health care, and are diagnosed at later stages of cognitive impairment than white non-Hispanics. Acculturation and different attitudes toward test-taking may result in decrements in performance, especially on unfamiliar measures that emphasize speed and accuracy. Non-Hispanic individuals often outperform Hispanic individuals on cognitive and neuropsychological measures in community and clinical populations. Current neuropsychological testing may not provide accurate data related to monolingual and bilingual individuals of Hispanic descent. Testing instruments were identified by searching academic databases using combinations of relevant search terms. Neuropsychological instruments were included if they were designed to detect cognitive impairment, had an administration time of less than 45 minutes, and were available in English. Validity studies were required to employ gold standard comparison diagnostic criteria. Twenty-nine instruments were evaluated in dementia staging, global cognition, memory, memory and visual abilities, working memory and attention, verbal learning and memory, recall, language, premorbid intelligence, literacy/cognitive reserve, visuospatial, attention, problem-solving, problem solving and perception, functional assessment, and mood/daily functioning domains. Spanish-language neuropsychological instruments need to be made widely available and existing instruments to be normed in Spanish to best serve and assess diverse populations. Psychometric data were reported for neuropsychological instruments, which may be administered to Hispanic older adults presenting for evaluation related to dementia-spectrum disorders. This is one of the few reviews to provide an overview of the sensitivity and specificity of available Spanish translated neuropsychological instruments.

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“…The questionnaire used was thorough and has proven to be accurate to exclude patients with conditions that might affect brain functioning in the previous studies. 19 The final sample consisted of 56 unpaid volunteers as 15 participants were excluded from the original sample of 71 participants. They were recruited from both urban and rural areas of the province of Córdoba in Argentina with a convenience sample.…”

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Reading fluency as a measure of educational level

Fernández

Arriondo

2021

Dement. neuropsychol.

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Education exerts a powerful influence on the performance on neuropsychological tests. Recently, the number of years that a person attends school has been the preferred method to operationalize educational level (EL). However, reading fluency (RF) has emerged as an alternative method that can define the quality of education. Objective: To compare the influence of the number of years of education with RF on the cognitive performance in a control sample. Methods: Fifty-six control participants with varying ages (17–87 years) and levels of education (3–19 years of formal schooling) were administered a neuropsychological scale along with an RF task. This scale measured attention, memory, language, executive functions, and constructional praxis. The RF task consisted of a short text. The score was the number of words read correctly per minute. Pearson’s r was used to compute correlations. Results: Results showed that RF had a higher correlation (0.53) than the years of schooling (0.38) with the scores of the neuropsychological scale. Conclusions: Reading fluency is a short, practical task that is easy to use in different languages and is a promising tool for EL assessment. It is also an adequate alternative to the reading of irregular words as a qualitative measure of EL.

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Development of a Confrontation Naming Test For Spanish-speakers: The Cordoba Naming Test

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

Validity of Cognitive Assessment Tools for Older Adult Hispanics: A Systematic Review

Validity of Cognitive Assessment Tools for Older Adult Hispanics: A Systematic Review

Dementia-related neuropsychological testing considerations in non-Hispanic White and Latino/Hispanic populations.

Reading fluency as a measure of educational level

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