Effects of age, education, and gender on verbal fluency in healthy adult Arabic-speakers in Egypt
Abstract
The objective of this study is to establish the effects of age, gender, and education and to provide preliminary normative data for letter and category fluency tasks in the Egyptian Arabic-speaking population. We evaluated 139 cognitively healthy volunteers aged 20-93 by adapting the letter and category verbal fluency tasks for the Egyptian population. On the letter fluency task, mean number of words generated in one-minute beginning with the Arabic letter "Sheen" (pronounced "sh") was 8.14 words per minute (SD = 3.25). Letter fluency was significantly influenced by education. On category fluency tasks, mean number of animal names generated in one minute was 14.63 words (SD = 5.28). Category fluency was significantly influenced by age and education. We were able identify that age significantly affects category fluency while education significantly affected both letter and category fluency. We were also able to provide preliminary normative data for both tasks in the Egyptian population.
Citations
Altmetric:
Date
2016-06-09
Type
Article
Subject
Mental health
Collections
Citation
Abdel Aziz K, Khater MS, Emara T, Tawfik HM, Rasheedy D, Mohammedin AS, Tolba MF, El-Gabry DA, Qassem T. Effects of age, education, and gender on verbal fluency in healthy adult Arabic-speakers in Egypt. Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2017 Jul-Aug;24(4):331-341. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2016.1185424. Epub 2016 Jun 9. PMID: 27282630.
Journal / Source Title
Applied Neuropsychology: Adult
DOI
10.1080/23279095.2016.1185424
PMID
27282630
Publisher
Taylor and Francis Group