TY - JOUR
T1 - Mayo's older African American normative studies
T2 - Auditory Verbal Learning Test norms for African American elders
AU - Ferman, Tanis J.
AU - Lucas, John A.
AU - Ivnik, Robert J.
AU - Smith, Glenn E.
AU - Willis, Floyd B.
AU - Petersen, Ronald C.
AU - Graff-Radford, Neill R.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Mayo’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (NIA P50 AG16574). The authors wish to sincerely thank the study participants, the staff of the Mary Singleton Senior Citizens Center, Bethel Baptist Church, and the many churches within the African American community of Jacksonville, FL for their strong support of our research efforts. We also gratefully acknowledge the staffs of Mayo’s ADRC and Clinical Neuropsychology Service for their assistance in test administration, scoring, and data management. We are especially grateful to LaShaune Lawson, Shelia O’Rourke, and Sylvia Stewart, who served as study coordinators for the MOAANS project.
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - The Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) is frequently used in clinical practice to assess for memory dysfunction in the elderly. As part of the Mayo Older African Americans Normative Studies (MOAANS), we provide age and education adjusted normative data for the AVLT. The sample consists of 306 self-identified African Americans who are cognitively normal, community-dwelling and ranging in age from 56 through 94. Additional summary indices are included in the normative data, including learning efficiency, delayed recall, percent retention, and an index representing recognition memory corrected for false-positive identifications. Given the importance of using a normative reference sample that closely represents the population of interest, the current norms should provide clinically useful data for evaluating African American elders, especially those who were educated in the southern United States.
AB - The Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) is frequently used in clinical practice to assess for memory dysfunction in the elderly. As part of the Mayo Older African Americans Normative Studies (MOAANS), we provide age and education adjusted normative data for the AVLT. The sample consists of 306 self-identified African Americans who are cognitively normal, community-dwelling and ranging in age from 56 through 94. Additional summary indices are included in the normative data, including learning efficiency, delayed recall, percent retention, and an index representing recognition memory corrected for false-positive identifications. Given the importance of using a normative reference sample that closely represents the population of interest, the current norms should provide clinically useful data for evaluating African American elders, especially those who were educated in the southern United States.
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U2 - 10.1080/13854040590945300
DO - 10.1080/13854040590945300
M3 - Article
C2 - 16019705
AN - SCOPUS:20444404280
SN - 1385-4046
VL - 19
SP - 214
EP - 228
JO - Clinical Neuropsychologist
JF - Clinical Neuropsychologist
IS - 2
ER -