Telephone-Administered Cognitive Tests as Tools for the Identification of Eligible Study Participants for Population-Based Research in Aging

Wolfson, Christina; Kirkland, Susan; Raina, Parminder; Uniat, Jennifer; Roberts, Karen; Bergman, Howard; Furlini, Linda; Pelletier, Amélie; Strople, Geoff; Angus, Camille L.; Keshavarz, Homa; Szala-Meneok, Karen

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“…Finally, the practicability and efficiency of use is mainly derived from the instruments' design. The more accessible telephone instruments follow the model of the most widely accepted in-person brief screening measure for dementia diagnosis, the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) (Wolfson et al, 2009). …”

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Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments

Castanho

Amorim

Zihl³

et al. 2014

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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The decline of cognitive function in old age is a great challenge for modern society. The simultaneous increase in dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases justifies a growing need for accurate and valid cognitive assessment instruments. Although in-person testing is considered the most effective and preferred administration mode of assessment, it can pose not only a research difficulty in reaching large and diverse population samples, but it may also limit the assessment and follow-up of individuals with either physical or health limitations or reduced motivation. Therefore, telephone-based cognitive screening instruments can be an alternative and attractive strategy to in-person assessments. In order to give a current view of the state of the art of telephone-based tools for cognitive assessment in aging, this review highlights some of the existing instruments with particular focus on data validation, cognitive domains assessed, administration time and instrument limitations and advantages. From the review of the literature, performed using the databases EBSCO, Science Direct and PubMed, it was possible to verify that while telephone-based tools are useful in research and clinical practice, providing a promising approach, the methodologies still need refinement in the validation steps, including comparison with either single instruments or neurocognitive test batteries, to improve specificity and sensitivity to validly detect subtle changes in cognition that may precede cognitive impairment.

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confidence: 99%

Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments

Castanho

Amorim

Zihl³

et al. 2014

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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116

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“…These batteries, often derived from the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE, Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh, 1975) have been used successfully to test adults with a focus on screening for cognitive impairment. Such instruments, including the Brief Screen for Cognition Impairment (Hill et al, 2005), the Memory and Aging Telephone Screen (Rabin et al, 2007), or the Telephone Cognitive Assessment Battery (Debanne et al, 1997) do not typically provide a comprehensive assessment of cognitive domains (see Lachman & Tun, 2008; Martin-Khan, Wootton, & Gray, 2010; Soubelet & Salthouse, 2011; Wolfson et al, 2009, for reviews) and are not sensitive enough to variations in cognitive abilities across adulthood (Wolfson et al, 2009). Due to ceiling effects and limited variance they cannot typically discriminate among those with mild deficits or those in the normal range of functioning especially when comparing adults of different ages.…”

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Monitoring Cognitive Functioning

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Assessment of cognitive functioning is an important component of telephone surveys of health. Previous cognitive telephone batteries have been limited in scope with a primary focus on dementia screening. The Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT) assesses multiple dimensions central for effective functioning across adulthood: episodic memory, working memory, reasoning, verbal fluency, and executive function. The BTACT is the first instrument which includes measures of processing speed, reaction time, and task switching/inhibitory control for use over the telephone. We administered the battery to a national sample (N = 4,268), aged 32 to 84, from the study of Midlife in the United States and examined age, education and sex differences, reliability, and factor structure. We found good evidence for construct validity with a subsample tested in person. Implications of the findings are considered for efficient neuropsychological assessment and monitoring changes in cognitive aging, for clinical and research applications by telephone or in person.

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“…The benefits of telephone cognitive evaluations may be most apparent in epidemiological studies and other large-scale survey studies (Wilson & Bennett, 2005; Wolfson et al, 2009). In particular, a study that requires participants to undergo in-person assessment at the study site necessarily limits its sample to those individuals who have the health, mobility, and resources to travel.…”

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Bi-factor analyses of the Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone

Gavett

Crane

Dams-O’Connor

2013

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BACKGROUND: Telephone cognitive batteries are useful for large-scale screening and epidemiological studies, but their brevity and lack of content depth may cause psychometric limitations that hinder their utility. OBJECTIVE:The current study addressed some of these limitations by rescaling the Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT; Tun & Lachman, 2006) using modern psychometric methods. METHODS: Archival data were obtained from a national sample of 4,212 28 to 84-year-old volunteers in the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States Cognitive Project (Ryff & Lachman, 2007). We fit a bi-factor model to a combination of item-level, subscale-level, and scale-level data. RESULTS:The best fitting model contained a general factor and secondary factors capturing test-specific method effects or residual correlations for Number Series, Red/Green Test, and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. Factor scores generated from this model were compared with conventional BTACT scores. Important score differences (i.e., >0.3 standard deviation units) were found in 28% of the sample. The bi-factor scores demonstrated slightly superior validity than conventional BTACT scores when judged against a number of clinical and demographic criterion variables. CONCLUSIONS: Modern psychometric approaches to scoring the BTACT have the benefit of linear scaling and a modest criterion validity advantage.

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Telephone-Administered Cognitive Tests as Tools for the Identification of Eligible Study Participants for Population-Based Research in Aging

Cited by 16 publications

References 31 publications

Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments

Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments

Monitoring Cognitive Functioning

Bi-factor analyses of the Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone

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