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Age and education-matched cut-off scores for the revised German/Swiss-German version of ECAS
journal contribution
posted on 2016-03-30, 19:57 authored by Markus Loose, Christian Burkhardt, Helena Aho-Özhan, Jürgen Keller, Susanne Abdulla, Sarah Böhm, Katja Kollewe, Ingo Uttner, Sharon Abrahams, Susanne Petri, Markus Weber, Albert C. Ludolph, Dorothée LuléThe Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) has been developed to assess cognition and behaviour in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Cognitive impairments of ALS-specific and ALS-non-specific functions can be determined using cut-off scores based on performance of healthy subjects. However, detailed analyses show that older healthy subjects perform worse than younger ones, whereas highly-educated individuals perform better than those with lower education levels. As a consequence, this study presents new age and education matched cut-off scores for the revised German/Swiss-German version of the ECAS based on the performance of 86 healthy subjects.