1. Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery--Portuguese version: age and education effects.
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Kerr Mde S, Pagliarin KC, Mineiro A, Ferré P, Joanette Y, and Fonseca RP
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- Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Analysis of Variance, Communication, Communication Disorders diagnosis, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Language, Male, Middle Aged, Portugal, Reference Values, Reproducibility of Results, Task Performance and Analysis, Young Adult, Cerebrum physiopathology, Communication Disorders physiopathology, Neuropsychological Tests standards
- Abstract
Purpose: To verify age and education effects on communication performance of healthy adults in the Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery, Portuguese version (MAC-PT)., Methods: The sample comprised 90 healthy adults from Portugal, European Portuguese speakers, divided into nine groups according to educational level (4-9, 10-13, and > 13 years of formal schooling) and age (19-40, 41-64, and 65-80 years). The influence of age and education was assessed by comparing mean scores between groups, using a two-way analysis of variance followed by Bonferroni post hoc tests (p ≤ 0.05)., Results: The results showed that participants' performance was influenced by age in pragmatic-inferential, discursive, and prosodic tasks. Education had the greatest influence on the performance in all processes evaluated by the MAC-PT., Conclusion: Age and education seem to influence the communicative performance and should be considered in the assessment of neurological patients.
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- 2015
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