TY - JOUR
T1 - A new clinical tool for assessing numerical abilities in neurological diseases
T2 - Numerical activities of daily living
AU - Semenza, Carlo
AU - Meneghello, Francesca
AU - Arcara, Giorgio
AU - Burgio, Francesca
AU - Gnoato, Francesca
AU - Facchini, Silvia
AU - Benavides-Varela, Silvia
AU - Clementi, Maurizio
AU - Butterworth, Brian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The aim of this study was to build an instrument, the numerical activities of daily living (NADL), designed to identify the specific impairments in numerical functions that may cause problems in everyday life. These impairments go beyond what can be inferred from the available scales evaluating activities of daily living in general, and are not adequately captured by measures of the general deterioration of cognitive functions as assessed by standard clinical instruments like the MMSE and MoCA. We assessed a control group (n = 148) and a patient group affected by a wide variety of neurological conditions (n = 175), with NADL along with IADL, MMSE, and MoCA. The NADL battery was found to have satisfactory construct validity and reliability, across a wide age range. This enabled us to calculate appropriate criteria for impairment that took into account age and education. It was found that neurological patients tended to overestimate their abilities as compared to the judgment made by their caregivers, assessed with objective tests of numerical abilities.
AB - The aim of this study was to build an instrument, the numerical activities of daily living (NADL), designed to identify the specific impairments in numerical functions that may cause problems in everyday life. These impairments go beyond what can be inferred from the available scales evaluating activities of daily living in general, and are not adequately captured by measures of the general deterioration of cognitive functions as assessed by standard clinical instruments like the MMSE and MoCA. We assessed a control group (n = 148) and a patient group affected by a wide variety of neurological conditions (n = 175), with NADL along with IADL, MMSE, and MoCA. The NADL battery was found to have satisfactory construct validity and reliability, across a wide age range. This enabled us to calculate appropriate criteria for impairment that took into account age and education. It was found that neurological patients tended to overestimate their abilities as compared to the judgment made by their caregivers, assessed with objective tests of numerical abilities.
KW - Acalculia
KW - Activities of daily living
KW - Mathematical cognition
KW - Neurological diseases
KW - Neuropsychological assessment
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U2 - 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00112
DO - 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00112
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904555979
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
JF - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
SN - 1663-4365
IS - JUN
M1 - 112
ER -