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Grooved Pegboard Predicates More of Cognitive Than Motor Involvement in Parkinson’s Disease
- Source :
- Assessment. 21:723-730
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2014.
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Abstract
- The Grooved Pegboard Test (GPT) was conceived as a test of manual dexterity, upper-limb motor speed, and hand–eye coordination. The aim of our study was to test the componential structure of the GPT on an archetypal model of motor impairment, Parkinson’s disease (PD). A total of 45 PD patients (33 males, 12 females; age M = 67, range = 49-81; PD duration M = 10, range = 6-20 years; H/Y stage 2, range = 2-3) and 20 age- and education-matched controls (14 males, 6 females; age M = 66, range = 48-80) were included. All participants were investigated using the GPT, Short Falls Efficacy Scale–International, Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Non-Motor Symptom Scale. Patients were followed for 6 months, using fall diaries and monthly phone calls to define PD fallers (falls ≥ 1; n = 27) and PD nonfallers (falls = 0; n = 18). Using structural equation modeling, the GPT predicted performance on the MoCA ( p < .001), but not on the FAB ( p = .29). In conclusion, analysis of the structure of the GPT provided evidence about important cognitive features, in addition to the motor component of this test in PD.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Parkinson's disease
Falls efficacy
Motor Activity
Neuropsychological Tests
Audiology
Developmental psychology
Cognition
medicine
Humans
Motor speed
Motor activity
Applied Psychology
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Parkinson Disease
Motor impairment
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Clinical Psychology
Female
Psychology
Grooved Pegboard Test
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15523489 and 10731911
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Assessment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....70f7191ee4ceca83b93dbb418fb4160b