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Semantic Verbal Fluency: Normative Data in Older Spanish Adults From NEDICES Population-Based Cohort
Israel Contador1, Katie Almondes2, Bernardino Fernández-Calvo3
1Department of Basic Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology of Behavioral Science, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
Objective:
We aimed to provide the normative data stratified by age, sex and educational attainment for two semantic categories (animal and fruits) in older Spanish adults.
Method:
A representative sample of 2,744 non-demented older individuals with different socioeconomic background was selected from the Neurological Disorders in Central Spain (NEDICES), a population-based study. Normative data are presented in percentile ranks and divided into four age-tables with different midpoints, using the overlapping interval procedure.
Results:
Correlation analyses showed that age, education and sex influence significantly the scores in both semantic tasks. Normative data presented here covered two urban (Margaritas & Lista) and one rural areas (Arévalo).
Conclusion:
These norms may provide useful data for screening cognitive impairment more accurately in Spanish older adults.
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