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A normative study of the Czech Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS): a brief report
Raffaele Fazio1, Nina Soósová1, Thomas Bak2
1First Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Centre of Clinical Neuroscience, Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) is a brief, standardized assessment of cognitiveimpairment inamyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Objective:
We aimed to createa normative dataset for the ECAS Czech version (ECAS-CZ) in order to make the assessment applicable for clinical settings.
Method:
Included were 102 healthy participants (mean age: 54.92 ± 14.55; education: 14.52 ± 2.44; 54:48 females/males) that fulfilled rigorous exclusion criteria and controlled for depressive symptoms.
Results:
The internal consistency of ECAS-CZ was acceptable (Cronbach's α = .69). We found medium correlations (rho ≈ .5) of age and education with ECAS-CZ Total score but not with gender. Cut-offs with -2 SD's threshold are presented for the differentiation of cognitive impairment. We report percentile values for ECAS-CZ Total including all subscales.
Conclusion:
We provide normative values for ECAS-CZ that are well suited for the detection of cognitive impairment in clinical settings especially for patients with ALS.Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2021.1978553 .
