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- Title
Item Response Analysis of the Financial Capacity Instrument-Short Form.
- Authors
Gerstenecker, Adam; Kennedy, Richard; Zhang, Yue; Martin, Roy C; Mackin, R Scott; Weiner, Michael W; Howell, Taylor; Petersen, Ronald C; Roberson, Erik D; Marson, Daniel C
- Abstract
Objective The Financial Capacity Instrument-Short Form (FCI-SF) is a performance-based measure of everyday financial skills that takes 15 min to administer. Although the FCI-SF has demonstrated excellent psychometric properties, advanced psychometric methods such as item response theory (IRT) can provide important information on the performance of individual test items in measuring financial capacity and in distinguishing between healthy and cognitively impaired individuals. Method Participants were 272 older adults diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 1,344 cognitively healthy controls recruited from the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and also from the Cognitive Observations in Seniors study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Participants in each study were administered the FCI-SF, which evaluates coin/currency calculation, financial conceptual knowledge, use of a checkbook/register, and use of a bank statement. Results A unidimensional two-parameter logistic model best fit the 37 FCI-SF Test items, and most FCI-SF items fit the unidimensional two-parameter model well. The results indicated that all FCI-SF items robustly distinguished cognitively healthy controls from persons with MCI. Conclusions The study results showed that the FCI-SF performed well under IRT analysis, further highlighted the psychometric properties of the FCI-SF as a valid and reliable measure of financial capacity, and demonstrated the clinical utility of the FCI-SF in distinguishing between cognitively normal and cognitively impaired individuals.
- Subjects
ROCHESTER (Minn.); UNIVERSITY of Alabama at Birmingham; MAYO Clinic; ITEM response theory; CORPORATE finance; MILD cognitive impairment; PSYCHOMETRICS; OLDER people
- Publication
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 5, p739
- ISSN
0887-6177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/arclin/acac112