Dolores Villalobos, Lucia Torres-Simón, Javier Pacios, Nuria Paúl, David Del Río
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Abstract
Verbal fluency tests are easy and quick to use in neuropsychological assessments, so they have been counted among the most classical tools in this context. To date, several normative data for verbal fluency tests have been provided in different languages and countries. A systematic review was carried out with studies that provide normative data for verbal fluency tests. Studies were collected from Scopus, PubMed and Web of Science. 183 studies were retrieved from the database search, of which 73 finally met the inclusion criteria. An analysis of the risk of bias regarding samples selection/characterization and procedure/results reports is conducted for each article. Finally, a full description of the normative data characteristics, considering country and language, verbal fluency task characteristics (type of task) and sample characteristics (number of subjects, gender, age, education) is included. The current systematic review provides an overview and analysis of internationally published normative data that might help clinicians in their search for valid and useful norms on verbal fluency tasks, as well as updated information about qualitative aspects of the different options currently available.
言语流畅性测验在神经心理学评估中使用方便、快捷,因此被认为是神经心理学评估中最经典的工具之一。迄今为止,已有多种语言和国家提供了言语流畅性测验的常模数据。我们对提供言语流畅性测验常模数据的研究进行了系统性回顾。研究数据来自 Scopus、PubMed 和 Web of Science。通过数据库搜索,共检索到 183 项研究,其中 73 项最终符合纳入标准。我们对每篇文章的样本选择/特征和程序/结果报告进行了偏倚风险分析。最后,还包括对常模数据特征的全面描述,包括国家和语言、言语流利性任务特征(任务类型)和样本特征(受试者人数、性别、年龄、教育程度)。本系统综述概述并分析了国际上已发表的常模数据,这些数据可能有助于临床医生寻找有效且有用的言语流利性任务常模,同时还提供了有关现有不同选择的定性方面的最新信息。
期刊介绍:
Neuropsychology Review is a quarterly, refereed publication devoted to integrative review papers on substantive content areas in neuropsychology, with particular focus on populations with endogenous or acquired conditions affecting brain and function and on translational research providing a mechanistic understanding of clinical problems. Publication of new data is not the purview of the journal. Articles are written by international specialists in the field, discussing such complex issues as distinctive functional features of central nervous system disease and injury; challenges in early diagnosis; the impact of genes and environment on function; risk factors for functional impairment; treatment efficacy of neuropsychological rehabilitation; the role of neuroimaging, neuroelectrophysiology, and other neurometric modalities in explicating function; clinical trial design; neuropsychological function and its substrates characteristic of normal development and aging; and neuropsychological dysfunction and its substrates in neurological, psychiatric, and medical conditions. The journal''s broad perspective is supported by an outstanding, multidisciplinary editorial review board guided by the aim to provide students and professionals, clinicians and researchers with scholarly articles that critically and objectively summarize and synthesize the strengths and weaknesses in the literature and propose novel hypotheses, methods of analysis, and links to other fields.