Normative data for tests of attention and executive functions in a sample of European Portuguese adult population

• Autor(a) principal: Vicente, Selene G.
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Rivera, Diego, Barbosa, Fernando, Gaspar, Nuno, Dores, Artemisa Rocha, Mascialino, Guido, Arango-Lasprilla, Juan Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/16262
• topic: Executive functions; Attention; Neuropsychological tests; European Portuguese

The main goal of this study was to produce normative data for the Portuguese population on five neuropsychological tests frequently used to assess executive functions and attention: the Modified Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (M-WCST), the Stroop Color and Word Test, the Trail Making Test (TMT), the Brief Test of Attention (BTA), and the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT). The study included 300 individuals aged between 18 and 93 years, who had educational backgrounds ranging from 3 to 25 years. The influence of age, education, and sex was explored for each measure, as well as their contribution to explain the performance variance. Conclusions: The normative data are presented as regression-based algorithms to adjust direct and derived test scores for sex, age, and education. This study provides a calculator of normative data, derived from the results of the regression models.