De la Torre Gabriel G, Suárez-Llorens Alfonso, Caballero Francisco J, Ramallo Miguel A, Randolph Christopher, Lleó Alberto, Sala Isabel, Sánchez Belén
a Department of Psychology , University of Cadiz , Cádiz , Spain.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2014;36(10):1023-30. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2014.965664. Epub 2014 Nov 3.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia in the adult population. Tools capable of detecting predementia and established diagnoses of dementia are very important for assessing these patients. The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) is a brief neuropsychological battery that has been successful at detecting cognitive impairment in degenerative and nondegenerative neurological diseases. The objective of this study was to test reliability and sensibility and obtain normative data of a Spanish adaptation of the RBANS. In this study, 50 participants with AD and 336 healthy participants stratified according to the Spanish Census, with different levels of education, were tested with the RBANS (Form A). Descriptive analyses were performed on a pilot sample from the general population, and comparative analyses were performed on data from the two samples. We obtained an overall reliability coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) of .92. RBANS showed strong specificity and moderately low sensitivity. Participants in the AD group performed significantly worse on most subtests than control participants. Implications with regard to the specificity and sensitivity of the Spanish version of the RBANS are discussed.
阿尔茨海默病（AD）是成年人群中痴呆症最常见的病因。能够检测痴呆前期以及确诊痴呆症的工具对于评估这些患者非常重要。可重复神经心理状态评估量表（RBANS）是一种简短的神经心理量表，已成功用于检测退行性和非退行性神经疾病中的认知障碍。本研究的目的是测试西班牙文版RBANS的信度和效度，并获取其常模数据。在本研究中，50名AD患者和336名根据西班牙人口普查分层、具有不同教育水平的健康参与者接受了RBANS（A版）测试。对来自普通人群的一个试点样本进行了描述性分析，并对两个样本的数据进行了比较分析。我们获得的总体信度系数（克朗巴哈系数）为0.92。RBANS显示出很强的特异性和中等偏低的敏感性。AD组参与者在大多数子测试中的表现明显比对照组参与者差。本文讨论了西班牙文版RBANS的特异性和敏感性的相关影响。
