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Table 2 Performance on neuropsychological battery

From: Cognitive impairment indicator for the neuropsychological test batteries in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: definition and evidence for validity

Neuropsychological test

Tracking

Comprehensive

“Raw” test scores

N

Mean

SD

N

Mean

SD

  REY I immediate recall

19,576

5.91

2.35

29,073

5.85

1.91

  REY II delayed recall

19,462

4.36

2.59

29,041

4.04

2.17

  Animal Fluency

20,432

20.97

6.52

29,365

21.41

6.47

  MAT

18,823

25.98

9.60

28,606

26.54

8.75

  Stroop Interference

-

-

-

29,675

2.159

0.731

  FAS total

-

-

-

28,994

39.21

12.79

Cognitive impairment on individual tests

Available N

# Imp

%a

Available N

# Imp

%a

 Based on REY I immediate recall

19,488

1176

5.5

29,024

1671

5.8

 Based on REY II delayed recall

19,374

1026

5.3

28,715

1560

5.4

 Based on Animal Fluency

19,472

1100

5.6

28,804

1521

5.3

 Based on MAT score

18,246

1654

7.8

28,014

2122

7.6

 Based on Stroop Interference

-

-

-

29,626

1602

5.4

 Based on FAS total

-

-

-

27,724

1512

5.5

Cognitive impairment on overall 4-test battery b

 Cognitively Impaired

16,371

664

3.1

27,203

983

3.6

 Not impaired

 

15,707

95.9

 

26,220

96.4

 Unclassified due to missing data — out of total N

 

(4870)

(22.9)

 

(2894)

(9.6)

Cognitive impairment on overall 6-test battery c

 Cognitively impaired

-

-

-

25,168

1528

6.1

 Not impaired

    

23,640

93.9

  (Unclassified due to missing data — out of total N)

    

(4929)

(16.4)

  1. SD standard deviation, REY I Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test immediate recall, REY II Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test 5-min delayed recall, AF2 Animal Fluency, MAT Mental Alternation Test, Stroop Interference Victoria Stroop Dots card/Colours card times, FAS Letters from the Controlled Oral Word Association Test
  2. a% is the valid percent excluding missing values. Missing values Tracking raw scores for REY I 8.3%; REY II 8.8%; AF2 8.4%; MAT 14.2%. Missing values for Comprehensive: REY I 3.6%; REY II 4.6%; AF2 4.3%; MAT 6.9%; STP 1.6%; and FAS 7.9%
  3. bThe 4-test battery consists of REY I, REYII, AF2, and MAT
  4. cThe 6-test battery consists of REY I, REYII, AF2, MAT, Stroop, and FAS, Comprehensive cohort only