TITLE:
Population Normative Data of the Moroccan Arabic Version of Three Components of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group Cognitive Test Battery; with Moroccan Illiterate and Semi-Illiterate Subjects
AUTHORS:
Asmaa Oumellal, Mustapha El Alaoui Faris, Maria Benabdeljlil
KEYWORDS:
10/66 Cognitive Test Battery, Normative Study, Age, Education, Illiteracy
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Alzheimer's Disease,
Vol.8 No.1,
March
29,
2019
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to provide normative data of the Moroccan Arabic version of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group cognitive test battery and to explore the effects of age, education/illiteracy, and gender on the performance of these tests. One hundred healthy subjects (67 illiterates and 33 semi-illiterates) participated in this study. None of the participants had serious medical, psychiatric, or neurological disorders including dementia. The protocol included the administration of three components of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group cognitive test battery; Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI “D”, generating the COGSCORE measure of global function), and the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD) verbal fluency (VF), word list memory (WLM, immediate recall) tests. All the test scores were not significantly influenced by sex and age. There was no significant effect of education/illiteracy on the CERAD verbal fluency (VF) and Word List Memory (immediate recall) test scores, but a weakly significant (p