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| Original Article | |||||
| Dementia and Neurocognitive Disorders 2017: 16: 4: 95-103 | |||||
| Development and Validation of the Way-Finding Ability Scale for Middle-Aged and Older Adults | |||||
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| Sujin Kim,1 Yeonwook Kang1,2 | |||||
| 1Department of Psychology, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea 2Department of Neurology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea | |||||
| Development and Validation of the Way-Finding Ability Scale for Middle-Aged and Older Adults | |||||
| Sujin Kim,1 Yeonwook Kang1,2 | |||||
| 1Department of Psychology, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea 2Department of Neurology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea | |||||
| Background and Purpose This study was performed to newly develop the Way-Finding Ability Scale (WFAS) for middle-aged and older adults and validate its clinical utility. Methods The participants for verifying construct validity included 324 adults aged from 45 to 79 years, and 22 normal old adults without way-finding deficit (WFD), 41 amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), and 35 patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD-MCI) for verifying discriminant validity. All participants were administered the newly constructed 28-item WFAS. Results Exploratory factor analysis of the WFAS revealed a four-factor solution (sense of direction and inattention, spatial learning and memory, strategic ability, and cardinal direction). This four-factor structure was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. The discriminant validity was examined by administering the WFAS to normal older adults and two patient groups (aMCI & PD-MCI). The results showed that the total scores of two patient groups were lower than that of normal older adults. The patients with WFD had significantly lower total scores than those without WFD. Interestingly, the total scores of patients without WFD were significantly lower than those of normal older adults suggesting that the cognitive functions associated with way-finding ability (WFA) were partially impaired in aMCI and PD-MCI patients without apparent WFD. The patients with WFD had consistently lower scores in every four-factor than those without WFD. Conclusions These results indicated that the WFAS assesses the WFD reliably as well as estimates the degree of decline in WFA. |
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| Key Words: way-finding ability, way-finding deficits, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s disease. | |||||
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