Validation of a Telephone Cognitive Assessment Battery

Debanne, Sara M.; Patterson, Marian B.; Dick, Rory; Riedel, Tatiana M.; Schnell, Audrey H.; Rowland, Douglas Y.

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb02935.x

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“…Overall, the strengths of the correlations with in-person testing found here are comparable to those that we reported previously for the same test battery applied to ARDS survivors [8] and the correlations reported for other telephone neurocognitive test batteries [21-25]. Two items in the test battery did not correlate as well as the others.…”

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Validation of a brief telephone battery for neurocognitive assessment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

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Background: The effects of pulmonary arterial hypertension on brain function are not understood, despite patients' frequent complaints of cognitive difficulties. Using clinical instruments normally administered during standard in-person assessment of neurocognitive function in adults, we assembled a battery of tests designed for administration over the telephone. The purpose was to improve patient participation, facilitate repeated test administration, and reduce the cost of research on the neuropsychological consequences of acute and chronic cardiorespiratory diseases. We undertook this study to validate telephone administration of the tests.

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Validation of a brief telephone battery for neurocognitive assessment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

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“…These batteries, often derived from the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE, Folstein, Folstein, & McHugh, 1975) have been used successfully to test adults with a focus on screening for cognitive impairment. Such instruments, including the Brief Screen for Cognition Impairment (Hill et al, 2005), the Memory and Aging Telephone Screen (Rabin et al, 2007), or the Telephone Cognitive Assessment Battery (Debanne et al, 1997) do not typically provide a comprehensive assessment of cognitive domains (see Lachman & Tun, 2008; Martin-Khan, Wootton, & Gray, 2010; Soubelet & Salthouse, 2011; Wolfson et al, 2009, for reviews) and are not sensitive enough to variations in cognitive abilities across adulthood (Wolfson et al, 2009). Due to ceiling effects and limited variance they cannot typically discriminate among those with mild deficits or those in the normal range of functioning especially when comparing adults of different ages.…”

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Monitoring Cognitive Functioning

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Assessment of cognitive functioning is an important component of telephone surveys of health. Previous cognitive telephone batteries have been limited in scope with a primary focus on dementia screening. The Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT) assesses multiple dimensions central for effective functioning across adulthood: episodic memory, working memory, reasoning, verbal fluency, and executive function. The BTACT is the first instrument which includes measures of processing speed, reaction time, and task switching/inhibitory control for use over the telephone. We administered the battery to a national sample (N = 4,268), aged 32 to 84, from the study of Midlife in the United States and examined age, education and sex differences, reliability, and factor structure. We found good evidence for construct validity with a subsample tested in person. Implications of the findings are considered for efficient neuropsychological assessment and monitoring changes in cognitive aging, for clinical and research applications by telephone or in person.

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“…In addition, persons with signs and symptoms of cognitive impairment may benefit from telephone screening in terms of determining the need for further medical evaluation. The successful use of telephone screening for the detection of cognitive impairment has been documented in several reports [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

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Characteristics of Two Telephone Screens for Cognitive Impairment

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et al. 2002

Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord

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We studied 56 subjects, 30 patients with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and 26 healthy controls, using two telephone screens for cognitive impairment, a self-report interview referred to as the TELE and the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS). The sensitivity and specificity of the TELE to differentiate AD patients from healthy controls was 90.0 and 88.5% and those of the TICS were 86.7 and 88.5%, respectively. When receiver operator characteristic curves were constructed, the area under the curve for the TELE was 96.0% (SE 2.4%) and for the TICS 90.3% (SE 4.2%). Pearson’s correlation between the TELE and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was 0.87 (p < 0.0001) and between the TICS and the MMSE 0.86 (p < 0.0001). The correlation between the TELE and the sum of the boxes of the Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR-SB) was –0.71 (p < 0.0001) and –0.75 between the TICS and the CDR-SB (p < 0.0001). These results indicate that both screens are sensitive and specific instruments for differentiating AD patients from healthy controls and have a strong correlation with face-to-face measures of cognitive function.

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Validation of a Telephone Cognitive Assessment Battery

Cited by 36 publications

References 10 publications

Validation of a brief telephone battery for neurocognitive assessment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Validation of a brief telephone battery for neurocognitive assessment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension

Monitoring Cognitive Functioning

Characteristics of Two Telephone Screens for Cognitive Impairment

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