Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Konkuk University, Konkuk University Medical Center, 4-12, Hwayangdong, Gwanggingu, 143-729, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2012 Mar-Apr;54(2):305-9. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2011.05.010. Epub 2011 Jul 14.
We determined the influence of demographic characteristics on the categorical verbal fluency and to provided its' normative data for the community-dwelling elderly with diverse educational attainment.
We administered the CFT using the animal category to 3025 (1420 men and 1605 women) non-demented community-dwelling Koreans aged 60-96 years who had educational levels ranging from 0 to 22 years.
Age and education were associated significantly with performance of CFT, with education showing the stronger association. Education accounted for 14.0% of CFT score variance and age accounted for 3.2%. However, gender did not influence performance of the test. We present normative data for CFT stratified by age (60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, and ≥85 years) and education (0, 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, and ≥13 years).
The CFT norms should provide clinically useful data for evaluating elderly people and help improve the interpretation of verbal fluency tasks and allow for greater diagnostic accuracy for cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).
我们确定人口统计学特征对分类词汇流畅性的影响，并为具有不同受教育程度的社区居住老年人提供其规范数据。
我们使用动物类别对 3025 名（1420 名男性和 1605 名女性）年龄在 60-96 岁、无痴呆的、居住在社区的韩国人进行了 CFT 测试，这些人受教育程度从 0 年到 22 年不等。
年龄和教育程度与 CFT 表现显著相关，教育程度的相关性更强。教育程度解释了 CFT 分数方差的 14.0%，年龄解释了 3.2%。然而，性别并不影响测试表现。我们根据年龄（60-64、65-69、70-74、75-79、80-84 和≥85 岁）和教育程度（0、1-3、4-6、7-9、10-12 和≥13 年）对 CFT 进行了分层，提供了 CFT 的规范数据。
CFT 规范应该为评估老年人提供有临床价值的数据，并有助于提高对词汇流畅性任务的解释，从而提高对认知障碍（如阿尔茨海默病）的诊断准确性。
