RT Journal Article
T1 Spanish Consortium for Ageing Normative Data (SCAND): semantic verbal fluency tests
A1 López Sánchez, Ramón
A1 Rubio Valdehita, Susana
A1 Fernández Blázquez, Miguel Ángel
A1 Lojo-Seoane, Cristina
A1 Ávila Villanueva, Marina
A1 Montenegro Peña, María Mercedes
A1 Mallo, Sabela C.
A1 Delgado Losada, María Luisa
AB Objective: Semantic verbal fluency constitutes a good candidate for identifying cognitive impairment. This paper offers normative data of different semantic verbal fluency tests for middle-aged and older adults natives from Spain considering sociodemographic factors, and different measures for each specific category (number of words produced, errors, and words evoked every 15 s).Method: Two thousand and eighty-eight cognitively unimpaired subjects aged between 50 and 89 years old, community dwelling, participated in the study. The statistical procedure includes the conversion of percentile ranges into scalar scores. Secondly, the effects of age, education and gender were verified. Linear regressions are used to calculate the scalar adjusted scores.Results: Scalar scores and percentiles corresponding to all semantic verbal fluency tests across different measures are shown. Additional tables, which show the points that must be added or subtracted from direct scores, are provided for Education regarding the total number of “animals” and “clothes” evoked by participants, as well as for Age and Education in case of the total number of “clothes”. Gender affects the number of “clothes” produced by participants in the first two 15-second segments.Conclusions: The current norms should provide clinically useful data for evaluating Spanish-speaking natives from Spain aged from 50 to 89 years.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2022
FD 2022-02-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102526
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102526
LA eng
NO López-Higes, R., Rubio-Valdehita, S., Fernández-Blázquez, M. A., Lojo-Seoane, C., Ávila-Villanueva, M., Montenegro-Peña, M., ... & Delgado-Losada, M. L. (2022). Spanish consortium for ageing normative data (SCAND): semantic verbal fluency tests. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 37(2), 352-364.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
DS Docta Complutense
RD 14 jun 2025