The brief assessment of cognition in schizophrenia. Normative data for the Italian population
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Objective To provide normative values for the Italian population for the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS), a recent brief neuropsychological instrument for the assessment of cognition in patients with schizophrenia.Participants Data were collected from 204 healthy adult Italian subjects, stratified by gender, education and age.Measurements and results Tests included in the BACS are the following: list learning, digit sequencing, verbal fluency, token motor task, symbol-coding and Tower of London. Normative values were established using the Equivalent Scores method in order to enable comparison with other neuropsychological tasks commonly used in the assessment of the Italian population. Performance on the BACS was influenced by the commonest demographic variables such as age and education.Conclusions The availability of normative data for the Italian population will increase the usefulness of this test for both clinical and experimental purposes.
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Cognitive assessment used the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) with normative Italian scores, and patients older than 70 years were excluded.
“Considering that domain scores were adjusted according to normative Italian scores for the BACS subtests in patients aged 18–70 years, we did not perform cognitive assessment in patients older than 70 years (Anselmetti et al., 2008).”
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- Authors
- Anselmetti, S., Poletti, S., Ermoli, E., Bechi, M., Cappa, S., Venneri, A., Smeraldi, E., & Cavallaro, R.
- Affiliations
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (IT)
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Anselmetti, Simona
- Venue
- Neurological Sciences
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 85-92
- ISSN
- 1590-1874 (ISSN-L)
- 1590-3478
- OpenAlex
- W2018090334
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 24
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- FWCI
- 1.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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- Neurological Sciences (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Historical and Modern Theater Studies
- Keywords
- Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia, BACS, reference values, schizophrenia, cognitive assessment, neuropsychological assessment, Italian population, age and education effects, Tower of London, symbol coding, verbal fluency, list learning
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Cognition, Cognition Disorders, Disability Evaluation, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Intelligence Tests, Italy, Male, Memory, Mental Processes, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Reference Values, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Verbal Behavior
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