Neils J, Baris J M, Carter C, Dell'aira A L, Nordloh S J, Weiler E, Weisiger B
University of Cincinnati, OH, USA.
J Speech Hear Res. 1995 Oct;38(5):1143-9. doi: 10.1044/jshr.3805.1143.
The 60-item Boston Naming Test (BNT; Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 1983) was administered to 323 normal elderly subjects between the ages of 65 and 97. The combined effects of age, education, and living environment (institutionalized/independent living) on total test score was determined. These three variables accounted for 32% of the variance in BNT performance. Educational background accounted for the greatest proportion of the variance, followed by age and living environment. There was also a significant interaction between age, education, and living environment. Overall, increased age adversely affected BNT scores. However, institutionalized subjects with a sixth-ninth grade education performed poorly on the BNT regardless of age. In addition, there was little difference in BNT performance according to age or living environment for the well educated. (The only exceptions were the oldest institutionalized subjects, who performed poorly on the BNT regardless of level of education.) The data presented in this study should be helpful for those clinicians who administer the BNT to elderly patients who are institutionalized or who have a limited educational background.
对323名年龄在65岁至97岁之间的正常老年人进行了包含60个条目的波士顿命名测试（BNT；卡普兰、古德格拉斯和温特劳布，1983年）。确定了年龄、教育程度和生活环境（机构养老/独立生活）对测试总分的综合影响。这三个变量解释了BNT表现中32%的方差。教育背景对方差的解释比例最大，其次是年龄和生活环境。年龄、教育程度和生活环境之间也存在显著的交互作用。总体而言，年龄增长对BNT分数有不利影响。然而，接受六至九年级教育的机构养老受试者在BNT上的表现较差，与年龄无关。此外，对于受过良好教育的人来说，BNT表现根据年龄或生活环境几乎没有差异。（唯一的例外是年龄最大的机构养老受试者，无论教育程度如何，他们在BNT上的表现都很差。）本研究中呈现的数据应该会对那些给机构养老或教育背景有限的老年患者进行BNT测试的临床医生有所帮助。
