在神经心理评估期间佩戴口罩会对老年患者口语测试的表现产生负面影响
1Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa.
Psychological assessment
|October 30, 2023
概括
面罩对神经心理测试的表现产生负面影响,特别是对口头测试中的老年人. 蒙面评估可能会人工降低老年患者的得分,影响临床解释.
科学领域:
- 神经心理学 神经心理学
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
- 老年病的医生 老年病的医生
背景情况:
- 面罩对于制COVID-19至关重要,但可能会阻碍沟通.
- 有效的沟通对于准确的神经心理评估至关重要.
- 戴口罩对认知测试表现的影响需要调查.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究戴口罩对神经心理测试表现的影响.
- 为了比较口头与视觉介导测试的表现,面具和没有面具的组之间.
- 检查年龄作为面具对认知测试相关影响的调节者.
主要方法:
- 在疫情前 (没有戴口罩) 组 (N=754) 和疫情后 (戴口罩) 组 (N=837) 中对神经心理测试的性能进行比较.
- 分析了八项标准神经心理测试的表现,区分了口头和视觉介导的任务.
- 利用来自主要学术医疗中心的大型临床数据集.
主要成果:
- 蒙面组在听觉口语学习测试 (AVLT) 上表现明显较低.
- 年龄调节了效果:65岁以上的患者在戴口罩时,在Digit Span和AVLT上表现更差.
- 在视觉介导测试中没有发现显著的性能差异.
结论:
- 在神经心理评估期间佩戴口罩可能会影响口头测试的表现,特别是在老年人中.
- 这些发现对老年医疗环境中的神经心理学家来说很重要,突出了潜在的得分通胀.
- 对口罩相关影响的认识对于准确解释口罩个体的认知评估至关重要.
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