TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of cognitive functions through the systemic lisbon battery
T2 - Normative data
AU - Gamito, Pedro
AU - Oliveira, J.
AU - Brito, R.
AU - Lopes, P.
AU - Rodelo, L.
AU - Pinto, L.
AU - Morais, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Schattauer 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Introduction: This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on “Methodologies, Models and Algorithms for Patients Rehabilitation”. Background: ICT is an emerging alternative to paper-and-pencil tests for the assessment of cognitive functions, allowing for the monitoring of participants’ behavior while they perform simulations of instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs) in a virtual reality (VR) scenario. This requires normative values for each VR task, so that deviations to normality can be identified as indicators of cognitive impairment. Objectives: To identify normative data for several IADL tasks that are available on the Systemic Lisbon Battery (SLB). Methods: Fifty-nine participants performed a series of VR tasks that require the use of the memory and executive function dimensions of cognitive functionality. Results: Normative data for the different subsets and total score of the SLB, based on proportion of correct hits per execution time, were identified. Age and experience with video games affect (respectively, negatively and positively) performance on the SLB and should be taken into account in assessment; on the other hand, gender and education do not. Conclusions: Overall results suggest that the SLB may be useful to assess cognitive functioning during the execution of activities of daily living, but larger studies and with clinical samples are needed.
AB - Introduction: This article is part of the Focus Theme of Methods of Information in Medicine on “Methodologies, Models and Algorithms for Patients Rehabilitation”. Background: ICT is an emerging alternative to paper-and-pencil tests for the assessment of cognitive functions, allowing for the monitoring of participants’ behavior while they perform simulations of instrumental activities of daily life (IADLs) in a virtual reality (VR) scenario. This requires normative values for each VR task, so that deviations to normality can be identified as indicators of cognitive impairment. Objectives: To identify normative data for several IADL tasks that are available on the Systemic Lisbon Battery (SLB). Methods: Fifty-nine participants performed a series of VR tasks that require the use of the memory and executive function dimensions of cognitive functionality. Results: Normative data for the different subsets and total score of the SLB, based on proportion of correct hits per execution time, were identified. Age and experience with video games affect (respectively, negatively and positively) performance on the SLB and should be taken into account in assessment; on the other hand, gender and education do not. Conclusions: Overall results suggest that the SLB may be useful to assess cognitive functioning during the execution of activities of daily living, but larger studies and with clinical samples are needed.
KW - Cognitive rehabilitation
KW - Normative data
KW - Systemic lisbon battery
KW - Virtual reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84954570109&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3414/ME14-02-0021
DO - 10.3414/ME14-02-0021
M3 - Article
C2 - 26660359
AN - SCOPUS:84954570109
SN - 0026-1270
VL - 55
SP - 93
EP - 97
JO - Methods of Information in Medicine
JF - Methods of Information in Medicine
IS - 1
ER -