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Olabarrieta-Landa L, Rivera D, Lara L, Rute-Pérez S, Rodríguez-Lorenzana A, Galarza-Del-Angel J, Peñalver Guia AI, Ferrer-Cascales R, Velázquez-Cardoso J, Campos Varillas AI, Ramos-Usuga D, Chino-Vilca B, Aguilar Uriarte MA, Martín-Lobo P, García de la Cadena C, Postigo-Alonso B, Romero-García I, Rabago Barajas BV, Irías Escher MJ, Arango-Lasprilla JC. Verbal fluency tests: Normative data for Spanish-speaking pediatric population. NeuroRehabilitation 2018; 41:673-686. [PMID: 28946591 DOI: 10.3233/nre-172240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To generate normative data for the phonological and semantic verbal fluency tests (VFT) in Spanish-speaking pediatric populations. METHOD The sample consisted of 4,373 healthy children from nine countries in Latin America (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Puerto Rico) and Spain. Each participant was administered the VFT as part of a larger neuropsychological battery. Scores for letters F, A, S, and animals and fruit categories were normed using multiple linear regressions and standard deviations of residual values. Age, age2, sex, and mean level of parental education (MLPE) were included as predictors in the analyses. RESULTS The final multiple linear regression models showed main effects for age on all scores, such that scores increased linearly as a function of age. Age2 had a significant effect in Chile (animals), Cuba (A letter, fruits), Ecuador (animals, fruits), Honduras (F letter), Mexico (animals, fruits), Peru (fruits), and Spain (S letters, animals, fruits). Models showed an effect for MLPE in Chile (A letters, animals, fruits), Ecuador (S letter, animals, fruits), Guatelama (F, S letter, animals), Honduras (animals), Mexico (F, A, S letters, animals, fruits), Puerto Rico (A, letters, animals), and Spain (all scores). Sex scores were found significant in Chile (animals), Ecuador (A letter, fruits), Mexico (F letter, fruits), Paraguay (F, A, S letters, fruits), Puerto Rico (F letter, animals, fruits), and Spain (F letter, fruits). CONCLUSIONS This is the largest multi-national Spanish speaking-pediatric normative study in the world, and as such it will allow neuropsychologists from these countries to have a more accurate way to interpret the phonological and semantic VFT in pediatric populations.
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Affiliation(s)
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- BioCruces Health Research Institute, Cruces University Hospital, Barakaldo, Spain
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- Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Talca, Chile
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- CIMCYC-The Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Psicofisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali, México
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- Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, MVS, Ciudad de México, México
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- Research Center CERNEP, Almeria University, Almería, Spain
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- Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- Department of Psychology, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Sevilla, Spain
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- Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de San Germán, Puerto Rico
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- Departamento de Neurociencias, Universidad de Guadalajara (CUCS), Guadalajara, México
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- Escuela de Ciencias Psicológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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- BioCruces Health Research Institute, Cruces University Hospital, Barakaldo, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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Rivera D, Olabarrieta-Landa L, Rabago Barajas BV, Irías Escher MJ, Saracostti Schwartzman M, Ferrer-Cascales R, Martín-Lobo P, Calderón JA, Aguilar Uriarte MA, Peñalver Guia AI, Camlla Ynga R, García-Guerrero CE, Fernandez-Agis I, García-Gómez-Pastrana A, Ibañéz-Alfonso JA, Gómez H, Galarza-Del-Angel J, García de la Cadena C, Arango-Lasprilla JC. Newly developed Learning and Verbal Memory Test (TAMV-I): Normative data for Spanish-speaking pediatric population. NeuroRehabilitation 2018; 41:695-706. [PMID: 29036849 DOI: 10.3233/nre-172249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To generate normative data for the Learning and Verbal Memory Test (TAMV-I) in Spanish-speaking pediatric populations. METHOD The sample consisted of 4,373 healthy children from nine countries in Latin America (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Puerto Rico) and Spain. Each participant was administered the TAMV-I as part of a larger neuropsychological battery. Free recall, memory delay and recognition scores were normed using multiple linear regressions and standard deviations of residual values. Age, age2, sex, and mean level of parental education (MLPE) were included as predictors in the analyses. RESULTS The final multiple linear regression models indicated main effects for age on all scores, such that scores increased linearly as a function of age. Age2 had a significant effect in all countries except Cuba, and Puerto Rico for free recall score; a significant effect for memory delay score in all countries except Cuba and Puerto Rico; and a significant effect for recognition score in in all countries except Guatemala, Honduras, and Puerto Rico. Models showed an effect for MLPE in Chile (free recall), Honduras (free recall), Mexico (free recall), Puerto Rico (free recall, memory delay, and recognition), and Spain (free recall and memory delay). Sex affected free recall score for Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Spain, memory delay score for all countries except Chile, Paraguay, and Puerto Rico, and recognition score for Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain, with girls scoring higher than boys. CONCLUSIONS This is the largest Spanish-speaking pediatric normative study in the world, and it will allow neuropsychologists from these countries to have a more accurate way to interpret the TAMV-I with pediatric populations.
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Affiliation(s)
- D Rivera
- BioCruces Health Research Institute, Cruces University Hospital, Barakaldo, Spain
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- Departamento de Neurociencias, Universidad de Guadalajara (CUCS), Guadalajara, México
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- Escuela de Ciencias Psicológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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- Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR), Logroño, Spain
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- Escuela de Psicología, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- CIMCYC-The Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto Metropolitano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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- Laboratorio de Psicofisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali, México
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- Departamento de Psicología, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- BioCruces Health Research Institute, Cruces University Hospital, Barakaldo, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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