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P4‐352: ADDITIVE EFFECT OF CEREBRAL ATROPHY ON COGNITION IN DEMENTIA‐FREE ELDERLY WITH CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE
Author(s) -
Xu Xin,
Hilal Saima,
Venketasubramanian Narayanaswamy,
Wong Tien Yin,
Cheng Ching Yu,
Chen Christopher
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2019.06.4023
Subject(s) - atrophy , dementia , neurocognitive , neuropsychology , visual memory , cognition , medicine , population , psychology , disease , psychiatry , environmental health
Background: The aim of this study was to verify recognition and name agreement of a set of 70 black and white line pictures on a large Czech population sample. Methods: The set of pictures was selected based on previous research, arrayed into an electronic form and distributed via internet. The picture names to the electronic form was filled in by 6055 participants across the whole country. The group for final evaluation comprised of 5290 respondents (age 53 6 15 years, 77% of women, 15 6 3 years of completed education) from all regions. The effect of age, education, gender, suspected brain pathology, subjective cognitive status and word frequency on naming agreement was analyzed. Results: All the pictures had name agreement above 85% and 66 of them had name agreement higher than 90%. The name agreement was influencedmostly by existence of more names for certain pictures due to abbreviations or dialect. Name agreement only in a few specific pictures was also influenced by gender, age or education, but this influence was mild and was only seen in some specific items. The correlation with word frequency was significant and low. Conclusions: The presented set of pictures has very good name agreement and can be used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. The pictures and the electronic form are freely available for replication in other languages and countries.