Validity Study of the Boston Naming Test Czech Version

Česká verzia

Authors: N. Zemanová ¹; O. Bezdíček ¹; J. Michalec ²; T. Nikolai ¹; J. Roth ¹; R. Jech ¹; E. Růžička ¹
Authors place of work: Neurologická klinika a Centrum klinických neurověd 1. LF UK a VFN v Praze ¹; Psychiatrická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN v Praze ²
Published in the journal: Cesk Slov Neurol N 2016; 79/112(3): 307-316
Category: Původní práce
doi: https://doi.org/10.14735/amcsnn2016307

Summary

Aim:
The aim of the present study was to examine feasibility and validity of the Boston Naming Test (BNT) Czech version.

Introduction:
An evaluation of confrontation naming is a substantial part of neuropsychological assessment. The BNT is one of the most widely used standardized measures of confrontation naming. However, a feasibility and validity study in the Czech population is still lacking. Patients and methods: We administered the BNT-60 and a broad neuropsychological battery to 154 subjects. A control sample (CS) consisted of 64 healthy subjects and a clinical sample of 52 Parkinson’s disease patients with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) and 38 PD patients without cognitive impairment (PD-NI).

Results:
Age and education are significantly related to the BNT-60 total score (age: Spearman ρ = –0.162; p = 0.045, education: ρ = 0.295; p < 0.001). Significant differences were revealed in all BNT scores between CS and PD-MCI (all p values < 0.05), while the only score that significantly differed between CS and PD-NI was the number of correct answers after semantic cue. BNT did not significantly differ between clinical groups. We found the highest convergent validity between BNT-60 and National Adult Reading Test Czech version (ρ = 0.476; p < 0.001). Cronbach’s alpha, as an internal consistency measure, was 0.746.

Conclusions:
Our results replicated the association between the BNT-60 Czech version and age and education in comparison to the original and suggest satisfactory discriminative validity for the differentiation between CS and PD-MCI. Our study presents preliminary percentile values in the Czech population and cutoffs for PD-MCI.

Key words:
Boston Naming Test Czech version – mild cognitive impairment – Parkinson’s disease – validity

The authors declare they have no potential conflicts of interest concerning drugs, products, or services used in the study.

The Editorial Board declares that the manuscript met the ICMJE “uniform requirements” for biomedical papers.

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