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Remote versus face-to-face neuropsychological testing for dementia research: a comparative study in people with Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and healthy older individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We explored whether adapting neuropsychological tests for online administration during the COVID-19 pandemic was feasible for dementia research.

Design

We used a longitudinal design for healthy controls, who completed face-to-face assessments 3-4 years before remote assessments. For patients, we used a cross-sectional design, contrasting a prospective remote cohort with a retrospective face-to-face cohort matched for age/education/severity.

Setting

Remote assessments were conducted using video-conferencing/online testing platforms, with participants using a personal computer/tablet at home. Face-to-face assessments were conducted in testing rooms at our research centre.

Participants

The remote cohort comprised 25 patients (n=8 Alzheimer's disease (AD); n=3 behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD); n=4 semantic dementia (SD); n=5 progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA); n=5 logopenic aphasia (LPA)). The face-to-face patient cohort comprised 64 patients (n=25 AD; n=12 bvFTD; n=9 SD; n=12 PNFA; n=6 LPA). Ten controls who previously participated in face-to-face research also took part remotely.

Outcome measures

The outcome measures comprised the strength of evidence under a Bayesian framework for differences in performances between testing environments on general neuropsychological and neurolinguistic measures.

Results

There was substantial evidence suggesting no difference across environments in both the healthy control and combined patient cohorts (including measures of working memory, single-word comprehension, arithmetic and naming; Bayes Factors (BF)₀₁ >3), in the healthy control group alone (including measures of letter/category fluency, semantic knowledge and bisyllabic word repetition; all BF₀₁ >3), and in the combined patient cohort alone (including measures of working memory, episodic memory, short-term verbal memory, visual perception, non-word reading, sentence comprehension and bisyllabic/trisyllabic word repetition; all BF₀₁ >3). In the control cohort alone, there was substantial evidence in support of a difference across environments for tests of visual perception (BF₀₁=0.0404) and monosyllabic word repetition (BF₀₁=0.0487).

Conclusions

Our findings suggest that remote delivery of neuropsychological tests for dementia research is feasible.

SUBMITTER: Requena-Komuro MC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9702828 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Remote versus face-to-face neuropsychological testing for dementia research: a comparative study in people with Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and healthy older individuals.

Requena-Komuro Maï-Carmen MC Jiang Jessica J Dobson Lucianne L Benhamou Elia E Russell Lucy L Bond Rebecca L RL Brotherhood Emilie V EV Greaves Caroline C Barker Suzie S Rohrer Jonathan D JD Crutch Sebastian J SJ Warren Jason D JD Hardy Chris Jd CJ

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<h4>Objectives</h4>We explored whether adapting neuropsychological tests for online administration during the COVID-19 pandemic was feasible for dementia research.<h4>Design</h4>We used a longitudinal design for healthy controls, who completed face-to-face assessments 3-4 years before remote assessments. For patients, we used a cross-sectional design, contrasting a prospective remote cohort with a retrospective face-to-face cohort matched for age/education/severity.<h4>Setting</h4>Remote assessm ...[more]

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Remote versus face-to-face neuropsychological testing for dementia research: a comparative study in people with Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and healthy older individuals.

Objectives

Design

Setting

Participants

Outcome measures

Results

Conclusions

Publications

Remote versus face-to-face neuropsychological testing for dementia research: a comparative study in people with Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia and healthy older individuals.

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