Macoir Joël, Lapierre Véronick, Brouillard Marie-Michelle, Verreault Phylicia, Landry Mariane, Hudon Carol
Faculté de médecine, École des Sciences de la réadaptation, Université Laval, 1050 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec (QC), G1V 0A6, Canada.
Centre de recherche CERVO - Brain Research Centre, 2301 Avenue d'Estimauville, Québec (QC), G1J 2G3, Canada.
Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2025 Aug 25;40(6):1133-1145. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acaf014.
Deficits in inhibition have been associated with various clinical conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases. The Hayling Sentence Completion Test (HSCT) is an assessment tool commonly used in clinical settings to measure verbal initiation and prepotent verbal response inhibition. Although it is used by numerous clinical and research groups in Quebec, normative data for the HSCT are not yet available for French-Quebec speakers.
The aims of this study were to provide error scoring guidelines and normative data in the adult population of French Quebec for the HSCT-QC (Study 1) and to determine its known-group discriminant validity (Study 2).
The results of Study 1, based on a sample of 214 healthy individuals aged 50 to 89, indicated that age significantly affected test performance, while educational level and sex did not. As no transformations were able to normalize the score distribution, percentile ranks for HSCT-QC performance were calculated solely based on age. Results from Study 2 demonstrated that the HSCT-QC effectively distinguishes the performance of healthy participants from those with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease.
Norms and psychometric data for the HSCT-QC will be highly beneficial for assessing inhibitory control in French-speaking adults in Quebec, Canada.
抑制功能缺陷与多种临床病症相关，包括神经退行性疾病。海林句子完成测验（HSCT）是临床环境中常用的一种评估工具，用于测量言语启动和优势言语反应抑制。尽管魁北克的众多临床和研究团队都在使用HSCT，但针对魁北克法语使用者的HSCT常模数据尚未可得。
本研究的目的是为HSCT-QC提供错误评分指南和魁北克成年法语人群的常模数据（研究1），并确定其已知组判别效度（研究2）。
基于214名年龄在50至89岁之间的健康个体样本，研究1的结果表明年龄对测试表现有显著影响，而教育水平和性别则没有。由于没有任何变换能够使分数分布标准化，因此HSCT-QC表现的百分等级仅根据年龄计算。研究2的结果表明，HSCT-QC能够有效区分健康参与者与轻度认知障碍或阿尔茨海默病患者的表现。
HSCT-QC的常模和心理测量数据对于评估加拿大魁北克成年法语使用者的抑制控制将非常有益。
