Beber Bárbara Costa, Chaves Márcia L F
Dementia Clinic, Neurology Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre RS, Brazil.
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre RS, Brazil.
Dement Neuropsychol. 2016 Jan-Mar;10(1):31-36. doi: 10.1590/S1980-57642016DN10100006.
Performance on the verb fluency (VF) task may be influenced by administration procedures and demographic factors of each population.
The aim of this study was to verify whether the previous administration of semantic and phonemic verbal fluency tasks can influence performance on VF; and to analyze the correlation of VF performance with education, age and type of errors in Brazilian healthy elderly.
Sixty-two participants were subdivided into experimental (semantic and the phonemic fluency tasks were administered before the VF) and control groups (VF only). The total score and the types of errors on the VF task were determined. Additional information was computed for the correlational analysis.
VF performance did not differ statistically between experimental and control groups, but correlated positively with education and negatively with intrusions.
The lack of influence of other verbal fluency tasks on performance of the VF task in elderly individuals allows the use of this order of administration. A strong influence of educational level on VF task performance reinforces the need for further studies in different populations.
动词流畅性（VF）任务的表现可能会受到每个人群的施测程序和人口统计学因素的影响。
本研究的目的是验证先前进行的语义和音素言语流畅性任务是否会影响VF任务的表现；并分析巴西健康老年人的VF任务表现与教育程度、年龄和错误类型之间的相关性。
62名参与者被分为实验组（在VF任务之前进行语义和音素流畅性任务）和对照组（仅进行VF任务）。确定VF任务的总分和错误类型。计算其他信息用于相关性分析。
实验组和对照组之间的VF任务表现没有统计学差异，但与教育程度呈正相关，与插入错误呈负相关。
其他言语流畅性任务对老年人VF任务表现缺乏影响，这使得可以采用这种施测顺序。教育水平对VF任务表现有强烈影响，这加强了在不同人群中进行进一步研究的必要性。
