What Are the Minimal Detectable Changes in SDMT and Verbal Fluency Tests for Assessing Changes in Cognitive Performance in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis and Non-Multiple Sclerosis Controls?

Date publication

janvier 2020

Journal

European neurology

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr MOULIN Thierry

Tous les auteurs :
Magnin E, Sagawa Y, Moulin T, Decavel P

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32634812

Résumé

Cognitive impairment is frequent in persons with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) and can impact on activities of daily living. The capacity to differentiate real changes from background statistical noise induced by human, instrumentational, and environmental variations inherent to the evaluation would improve cognitive assessments.

Mots clés

Cognition, Minimal detectable change, Multiple sclerosis, Reproducibility, Symbol digit modalities test, Verbal fluency

Référence

Eur Neurol. 2020 ;83(3):263-270