CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023224pt
Amanda Rentero Gimenez do Amaral Silva, Lucas de Oliveira Cunha, Déborah Carollina Costa Silva, Vanessa Mouffron Novaes, Aline Mansueto Mourão, Laélia Cristina Caseiro Vicente
{"title":"Immediate effects of photobiomodulation on saliva production.","authors":"Amanda Rentero Gimenez do Amaral Silva, Lucas de Oliveira Cunha, Déborah Carollina Costa Silva, Vanessa Mouffron Novaes, Aline Mansueto Mourão, Laélia Cristina Caseiro Vicente","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023224pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023224pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To verify the immediate effects of photobiomodulation on the production of salivary flow and the correlation of demographic, anthropometric and medication use data.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study included 100 healthy individuals, aged between 18 and 76 years (mean 27.2 years), randomly split into an experimental group and a placebo group. Assessments of anthropometric measurements, self-perception of saliva production and sialometry were performed. Next, LASER irradiation was carried out at an infrared wavelength (808 nanometers) with 100 milliwatts (mw) of power at five intraoral points: on the sublingual glands and bilaterally on the submandibular and parotid glands, at doses of 9, 18 and 24 joules (J). Sialometry was repeated after each application. The control group received the same procedures with placebo equipment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a statistical association in the self-perception of reduced saliva in the experimental group for the 24J dose and in sialometry and in the reduction in salivary flow for the 18J and 24J doses and an increase to 9J, in both groups. There was no association when comparing the experimental and placebo groups. Multiple multinomial regression analysis revealed that the reduction or increase in salivary flow is independent of demographic, anthropometric and medication use variables.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The bioinhibitory action of photobiomodulation on healthy salivary glands occurred at a dose of 18J and 24J, while the biostimulant action happened at a dose of 9J, regardless of demographic, anthropometric variables and medication use. The self-perception of reduced salivary flow occurred at 24J.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11166038/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023047pt
Evelyn Carla Dos Santos Rabelo, Ana Paula Dassie-Leite, Vanessa Veis Ribeiro, Glaucya Madazio, Mara Suzana Behlau
{"title":"Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed - CPPS and Acoustic Voice Quality Index - AVQI in healthy and altered children's voices: comparation, relationship with auditory-perceptual judgment and cut-off points.","authors":"Evelyn Carla Dos Santos Rabelo, Ana Paula Dassie-Leite, Vanessa Veis Ribeiro, Glaucya Madazio, Mara Suzana Behlau","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023047pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023047pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To compare the acoustic measurements of Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed (CPPS) and Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) of children with normal and altered voices, to relationship with auditory-perceptual judgment (APJ) and to establish cut-off points.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Vocal recordings of the sustained vowel and number counting tasks of 185 children were selected from a database and submitted to acoustic analysis with extraction of CPPS and AVQI measurements, and to APJ. The APJ was performed individually for each task, classified as normal or altered, and for the tasks together defining whether the child would pass or fail in a situation of vocal screening.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Children with altered APJ and who failed the screening had lower CPPS values and higher AVQI values, than those with normal APJ and who passed the screening. The APJ of the sustained vowel task was related to CPPS and AVQI, and APJ of the number counting task was related only to AVQI and CPPS numbers. The cut-off points that differentiate children with and without vocal deviation are 14.07 for the vowel CPPS, 7.62 for the CPPS numbers and 2.01 for the AVQI.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Children with altered voices, have higher AVQI values and lower CPPS values, when detected in children with voices within the normal range. The acoustic measurements were related to the auditory perceptual judgment of vocal quality in the sustained vowel task, however, the number counting task was related only to the AVQI and CPPS. The cut-off points that differentiate children with and without vocal deviation are 14.07 for the CPPS vowel, 7.62 for the CPPS numbers and 2.01 for the AVQI. The three measures were similar in identifying voices without deviation and dysphonic voices.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11189156/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023170pt
Isabela Dos Santos, Mara Behlau, Grace Shefcik, Pei-Tzu Tsai, Vanessa Veis Ribeiro
{"title":"Cross-cultural adaptation of the Voice-related Experiences of Nonbinary Individuals - VENI to Brazilian Portuguese.","authors":"Isabela Dos Santos, Mara Behlau, Grace Shefcik, Pei-Tzu Tsai, Vanessa Veis Ribeiro","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023170pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023170pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to translate and cross-culturally adapt the \"Voice-related Experiences of Nonbinary Individuals\" (VENI) to Brazilian Portuguese (BP).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-cultural adaptation was performed based on the combined guidelines of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Translation Recommendations and the COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN). The process included five stages: a) Translation of the instrument into BP by a translator specialized in the construct and a non-specialist, both native BP speakers and fluent in English; b) Synthesis of the two translations by consensus; c) Back-translation by a translator specialized in the construct and a non-specialist, both native English speakers and fluent in BP; d) Analysis by a committee of five speech-language pathologists voice specialist and the creation of the final version; e) Pre-testing with 21 individuals from the target population, conducted virtually.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During the translation stage, there were disagreements regarding the title, instructions, response key, and 15 items. In the back-translation stage, there were discrepancies in the format of 12 items and the content of four items. The expert committee's analysis led to changes in the title, instructions, one option in the response key, and eight items to meet the equivalence criteria. In the pre-test, a significantly higher proportion of usual responses to the instrument was observed when compared to the non-applicable option; this is frequently observed in instrument adaptations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The cross-cultural adaptation of VENI into Brazilian Portuguese was successful, resulting in the \"Experiências relacionadas à Voz de Pessoas Não Binárias - VENI-Br\" version.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11166032/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-27DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023279pt
{"title":"ERRATUM: Use of the Prompts for Reestructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a case study.","authors":"","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023279pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023279pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article doi: 10.1590/2317-1782/20232022299pt] [This corrects the article doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-1782/20232022299en].</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11166031/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-27eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20232022234pt
Camila Dantas Martins, Carine Vieira Bicalho, Renata Maria Moreira Furlan, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Andréa Rodrigues Motta
{"title":"Breastfeeding outpatient in primary care as an important action to promote breastfeeding: experience report.","authors":"Camila Dantas Martins, Carine Vieira Bicalho, Renata Maria Moreira Furlan, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Andréa Rodrigues Motta","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20232022234pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20232022234pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describe a successful experience of promotion, prevention and support for breastfeeding developed by professionals from a basic health unit. This is a Breastfeeding Outpatient Clinic, implemented in a health center in Belo Horizonte, in August 2019. The Outpatient Clinic was established based on the perception of the unit's team that many mothers had difficulty breastfeeding, however, due to the work overload of this team, this assistance did not occur in a timely manner, resulting in early weaning. Initially, a meeting was held to sensitize the team on the breastfeeding indicators of the unit. Based on this knowledge, the implementation of a breastfeeding Outpatient clinic was proposed, aimed not only at dyad with difficulties in managing breastfeeding, but at all postpartum women in the area covered by that health center. A flow was created, through which it was established that all postpartum women who brought their children to carry out the heel prick test at the unit would be referred to the Breastfeeding Outpatient Clinic to perform this service. With the improvement of care, the users of the health center started to breastfeed for longer, which reflected in the improvement of the unit's indicators.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11166039/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141162690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communication-related aspects of prospective memory: an exploratory factor analysis of prospective memory questionnaires.","authors":"Dasmine Fraclita D'Souza, Gagan Bajaj, Himani Kotian, Sheetal Raj Moolambally, Jayashree S Bhat","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023233en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023233en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Prospective memory (PM) questionnaires are frequently used to evaluate perceptions of PM skills in daily life. This study aimed to systematically investigate communication-specific attributes using pre-existing PM self-rating questionnaires to inform clinicians and researchers about the role of PM in cognitive communicative evaluations.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>PM-related items from three questionnaires (i.e., Prospective Memory Questionnaire, Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory, and Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire) were compiled and embedded in Google Forms and distributed to 70 Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) with expertise in Cognitive Communicative Disorders across India. Participants first identified items related to communication, and were then contacted to rate the communication-related PM items using a Likert scale for their degree of appropriateness. Responses from 40 SLPs were obtained and subjected to item-content validity index (i-CVI) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 114 PM items, 28 received ratings over 50% for their relevance to communication. Of the 28 items, 21 had an i-CVI score greater than 0.8. After the removal of overlapping content, 14 items were finalized and subjected to EFA, which resulted in four factors: PM failure due to loss of communicative content, PM failure due to loss of communicative intent, PM cost due to ongoing interference, and PM failure linked to the priority of communicative intent.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study highlights communication-related aspects of PM that can be used as a framework for SLPs to assess and research PM skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11129869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023268pt
Carolina Felix Providello, Ana Paola Nicolielo Carrilho, Vânia Peixoto, Maria de Fátima Serdoura Cardoso Maia, Simone Rocha de Vasconcellos Hage
{"title":"Lexical repertoire of 24 and 30-month-old children speaking Brazilian portuguese: preliminary results.","authors":"Carolina Felix Providello, Ana Paola Nicolielo Carrilho, Vânia Peixoto, Maria de Fátima Serdoura Cardoso Maia, Simone Rocha de Vasconcellos Hage","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023268pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023268pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To check the lexical repertoire of Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children at 24 and 30 months of age and the association between the number of words spoken and the following variables: socioeconomic status, parents' education, presence of siblings in the family, whether or not they attend school, and excessive use of tablets and cell phones.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>30 parents of children aged 24 months living in the state of São Paulo participated in the study. Using videoconferencing platforms, they underwent a speech-language pathology anamnesis, an interview with social services, and then they completed the \"MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory - First Words and Gestures\" as soon as their children were 24 and 30 months old. Quantitative and qualitative inferential inductive statistics were applied.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>the median number of words produced was 283 at 24 months and 401 at 30 months, indicating an increase of around 118 words after six months. The child attending a school environment had a significant relationship with increased vocabulary.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study reinforces the fact that vocabulary grows with age and corroborates the fact that children aged 24 months already have a repertoire greater than 50 words. Those who attend school every day produce at least 70 more words than those who do not.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11129851/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-20eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242023148pt
Alessandra Thais Beraldo, Julia Batistella, Perla do Nascimento Martins, Ana Paula Dassie-Leite, Eliane Cristina Pereira
{"title":"Immediate effect of inspiratory exercise with exerciser and respiratory encourager in women without vocal complaints.","authors":"Alessandra Thais Beraldo, Julia Batistella, Perla do Nascimento Martins, Ana Paula Dassie-Leite, Eliane Cristina Pereira","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023148pt","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023148pt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To evaluate the immediate effect of the inspiratory exercise with a booster and a respiratory exerciser on the voice of women without vocal complaints.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>25 women with no vocal complaints, between 18 and 34 years old, with a score of 1 on the Vocal Disorder Screening Index (ITDV) participated. Data collection was performed before and after performing the inspiratory exercise and consisted of recording the sustained vowel /a/, connected speech and maximum phonatory times (MPT) of vowels, fricative phonemes and counting numbers. In the auditory-perceptual judgment, the Vocal Deviation Scale (VSD) was used to verify the general degree of vocal deviation. Acoustic evaluation was performed using the PRAAT software and the parameters fundamental frequency (f0), jitter, shimmer, harmonium-to-noise ratio (HNR), Cepstral Peak Prominence Smoothed (CPPS), Acoustic Voice Quality Index (AVQI) and Acoustic Breathiness Index (ABI). To measure the aerodynamic measurements, the time of each emission was extracted in the Audacity program. Data were statistically analyzed using the Statistica for Windows software and normality was tested using the Shapiro-Wilk test. To compare the results, Student's and Wilcoxon's t tests were applied, adopting a significance level of 5%.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There were no significant differences between the results of the JPA and the acoustic measures, in the pre and post inspiratory exercise moments. As for the aerodynamic measures, it was possible to observe a significant increase in the value of the TMF /s/ (p=0.008).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There was no change in vocal quality after the inspiratory exercise with stimulator and respiratory exerciser, but an increase in the MPT of the phoneme /s/ was observed after the exercise.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11129852/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141076728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CoDASPub Date : 2024-05-13eCollection Date: 2024-01-01DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20242022336en
Monalysse Francisca Pereira Dos Santos, Luana Celly Silva Aprígio, João Victor Silva de Barros Lima, Fernanda Dreux Fernandes Miranda, Cristiano Miranda de Araújo, Karinna Veríssimo Meira Taveira, Cíntia Alves Salgado-Azoni
{"title":"Impact of reading intervention on the phonological awareness of children with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Monalysse Francisca Pereira Dos Santos, Luana Celly Silva Aprígio, João Victor Silva de Barros Lima, Fernanda Dreux Fernandes Miranda, Cristiano Miranda de Araújo, Karinna Veríssimo Meira Taveira, Cíntia Alves Salgado-Azoni","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242022336en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242022336en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To review studies that have intervention in reading with impacts on phonological awareness in children with autism spectrum disorder.</p><p><strong>Research strategies: </strong>Searches took place until February 2021 in Cochrane, Embase, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature), PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Web of Science and gray literature databases.</p><p><strong>Selection criteria: </strong>The review included experimental studies with preschoolers and schoolchildren with ASD. Two independent reviewers selected the studies and, in case of disagreement, a third reviewer was consulted.</p><p><strong>Data analysis: </strong>Joanna Briggs Institute checklists were used for risk of bias. A random effects meta-analysis was performed and the certainty of the evidence was assessed using the GRADE tool.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eight studies with some impact on phonological awareness were reviewed. The risk of bias was low and moderate. The certainty of the evidence was low for randomized trials and very low for non-randomised trials. Comparison of pre- and post-therapy on the Preschool Literacy Test (TOPEL) showed that children with ASD improved phonological awareness, with a mean difference between baseline and post-therapy of 6.21 (95% CI = 3.75-8.67; I2 = 0%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Shared reading and software activities with words and phrases can alter phonological awareness. These results support further research with larger samples and a detailed description of the intervention to observe its effectiveness in phonological awareness.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11104507/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and validation of a novel Context-Based Prospective Memory Task among neurotypical adults.","authors":"Dasmine Fraclita D'Souza, Sharon Ashley, Gagan Bajaj, Sheetal Raj Moolambally, Jayashree Sunil Bhat","doi":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023180en","DOIUrl":"10.1590/2317-1782/20242023180en","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To address the paucity and potential of context-based prospective memory (PM) assessment tasks suitable to Indian ethnicity, the study aimed to develop a novel context-based PM task and determine its psychometric properties among neurotypical adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Rendered images in 2-D were extracted from a 3-D shopping mall, where PM and ongoing tasks were embedded within them to provide participants with a semi-immersive experience. The design and scoring of the novel task were constructed in alignment with the Memory for Intentions Screening Test. Fifty neurotypical adults in and around Mangaluru were recruited. The Memory of Intentions Test (MIST) and novel context-based PM task were administered.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The validity of the novel task was established with a Content Validity Index of 0.98. The intraclass correlation for the test-retest reliability of the novel context-based PM task was 0.92 (p<0.001) and the inter-rater reliability was 0.98 (p<0.001). The internal consistency of the six subscales was high (Cronbach's α= 0.86), and the Spearman-Brown coefficient indicated a strong split-half reliability of 0.87. Spearman's correlation showed that the trials exhibited strong connections to the dichotomic characteristics of the subscales to which they belonged. Further, McNemar's test suggested similar profiles of the participants for the MIST and novel task.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results of the present study suggest that the novel context-based PM task offers good validity and reliability measures, providing valuable insight into the mechanisms of PM, and therefore, could be ideal for inclusion in a battery of cognitive assessments.</p>","PeriodicalId":46547,"journal":{"name":"CoDAS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11104506/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140922491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}