Design process and preliminary psychometric study of a video game to detect cognitive impairment in senior adults
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Título: | Design process and preliminary psychometric study of a video game to detect cognitive impairment in senior adults |
Autor/a: | Valladares Rodríguez, Sonia Pérez Rodríguez, Roberto Facal Mayo, David Fernández Iglesias, Manuel José Anido Rifón, Luis Mouriño García, Marcos |
Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Evolutiva e da Educación |
Palabras chave: | Neuroscience | Cognitive Disorders | Neurology | Human-Computer Interaction | Digital game | Episodic memory assessment | Early detection of alzheimer and mild cognitive impairment | Ecological neuropsychological evaluation | Validity | Psychometric properties | Usability | |
Data: | 2017 |
Editor: | PEERJ INC |
Cita bibliográfica: | Valladares-Rodriguez S, Perez-Rodriguez R, Facal D, Fernandez-Iglesias MJ, Anido-Rifon L, Mouriño-Garcia M. 2017. Design process and preliminary psychometric study of a video game to detect cognitive impairment in senior adults. PeerJ 5:e3508 |
Resumo: | Introduction Assessment of episodic memory has been traditionally used to evaluate potential cognitive impairments in senior adults. Typically, episodic memory evaluation is based on personal interviews and pen-and-paper tests. This article presents the design, development and a preliminary validation of a novel digital game to assess episodic memory intended to overcome the limitations of traditional methods, such as the cost of its administration, its intrusive character, the lack of early detection capabilities, the lack of ecological validity, the learning effect and the existence of confounding factors. Materials and Methods Our proposal is based on the gamification of the California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) and it has been designed to comply with the psychometric characteristics of reliability and validity. Two qualitative focus groups and a first pilot experiment were carried out to validate the proposal. Results A more ecological, non-intrusive and better administrable tool to perform cognitive assessment was developed. Initial evidence from the focus groups and pilot experiment confirmed the developed game’s usability and offered promising results insofar its psychometric validity is concerned. Moreover, the potential of this game for the cognitive classification of senior adults was confirmed, and administration time is dramatically reduced with respect to pen-and-paper tests. Limitations Additional research is needed to improve the resolution of the game for the identification of specific cognitive impairments, as well as to achieve a complete validation of the psychometric properties of the digital game. Conclusion Initial evidence show that serious games can be used as an instrument to assess the cognitive status of senior adults, and even to predict the onset of mild cognitive impairments or Alzheimer’s disease |
Versión do editor: | https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3508 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22552 |
DOI: | 10.7717/peerj.3508 |
E-ISSN: | 2167-8359 |
Dereitos: | © 2017 Valladares-Rodriguez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited |
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© 2017 Valladares-Rodriguez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited
© 2017 Valladares-Rodriguez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited