Journal Article

DZNE-2025-01419

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Normative data for Vietnamese population: Effects of age, education, and sex on test performance.

Nguyen, T. T. T. ; Do, T.-L. ; Tran, H. T. T. ; Kilimann, I.DZNE* ; Tran, C.-T.

2025
Cambridge Univ. Press Cambridge

This record in other databases:    

Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1017/S1355617725101100

Abstract: Normative data of neuropsychological tests in the Vietnamese population is considerably lacking. We aim to evaluate the effects of age, education, and sex on the performance of common neuropsychological tests, and to generate normative data for these tests in cognitively normal Vietnamese adults.Participants were recruited from two hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City, with inclusion criteria as follows: age ≥ 40 years, normal cognition and function, and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores ≥ 26. Neuropsychological tests were administered in a paper-and-pencil format, including the CERAD Word List, Trail Making Tests, Digit Span, Animal Naming, and Clock Drawing Test. Effects of age, education, and sex on test performance were evaluated using multiple linear regression analyses. Normed scores were reported as regression-based and discrete norms tables.Participants included 385 cognitively normal Vietnamese, with age 61.4 ± 10.9 years (range 40 - 89), female 56%, who were relatively highly educated (42% attended college and beyond, 36% attended high school or equivalent institutions, 22% had less than high school education), and had MMSE scores 27.8 ± 1.0. Trail Making Test Part B was completed within 300 s by only 204/385 (53%) participants. Regression analyses demonstrated significant associations between age and education with performance on all or most tests, and between sex and all CERAD Word List measures and Clock Drawing Test.The present work provides the first known normative data for a relatively comprehensive neuropsychological battery in Vietnamese adults. Performance on all tests was significantly influenced by age and education.

Keyword(s): Humans (MeSH) ; Female (MeSH) ; Male (MeSH) ; Vietnam (MeSH) ; Middle Aged (MeSH) ; Adult (MeSH) ; Aged (MeSH) ; Neuropsychological Tests (MeSH) ; Educational Status (MeSH) ; Aged, 80 and over (MeSH) ; Reference Values (MeSH) ; Age Factors (MeSH) ; Sex Factors (MeSH) ; Aging (MeSH) ; Sex Characteristics (MeSH) ; Southeast Asian People (MeSH) ; Norms ; Vietnam ; aging ; cognition ; education ; neuropsychology

---

Contributing Institute(s):

1. Clinical Dementia Research (Rostock /Greifswald) (AG Teipel)

Research Program(s):

1. 353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353) (POF4-353)

---

Database coverage:
; Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List ; Current Contents - Clinical Medicine ; Ebsco Academic Search ; Essential Science Indicators ; IF < 5 ; JCR ; Nationallizenz ; SCOPUS ; Science Citation Index Expanded ; Web of Science Core Collection

---