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- Title
Investigating the application of "Guttmann Cognitest"® in older adults and people with acquired brain injury.
- Authors
Cattaneo, Gabriele; Roca-Ventura, Alba; Heras, Eva; Anglada, Maria; Missé, Jan; Ulloa, Encarnació; Fankhauser, Simon; Opisso, Eloy; García-Molina, Alberto; Solana-Sánchez, Javier
- Abstract
Introduction: Digital solutions for cognitive assessment are currently not only widely used in experimental contexts but can also be useful in clinical practice for efficient screening and longitudinal follow-up. The "Guttmann Cognitest"®, which includes seven computerized tasks designed to assess main cognitive functions, revealed in a previous validation study to be a potential useful tool to assess cognitive functioning in healthy middle-aged adults. Method: Here, we present results from a validation in two different populations: one consisting of older adults, and the other comprising young and middle- aged individuals, some of them affected by acquired brain injury. To perform a convergent validity test, older adults were also administered with the MOCA, while young and middle-aged individuals were administered with a short neuropsychological assessment including gold-standard neuropsychological tests. We also conducted sensitivity and specificity analysis to establish the utility of this instrument in identifying potential cognitive dysfunctions in the two groups. Results: Results demonstrated strong convergent validity as well as good specificity and sensitivity characteristics. Discussion: This tool is a valid and useful instrument to assess cognitive functioning and detecting potential cases of cognitive dysfunctions in older adults and clinical populations.
- Subjects
OLDER people; BRAIN injuries; MIDDLE-aged persons; COGNITIVE ability; DIGITAL technology
- Publication
Frontiers in Neurology, 2024, p01
- ISSN
1664-2295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fneur.2023.1292960