Frontal assessment battery in a Brazilian sample of healthy controls: normative data

OBJECTIVE: To show data on the performance of healthy subjects in the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), correlating with gender, age, education, and scores in the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). METHODS: Two hundred and seventy-five healthy individuals with mean age of 66.4±10.6 years-old were evaluated. Mean total FAB scores were established according to the educational level. RESULTS: Mean total FAB scores according to the educational level were 10.9±2.3, for one to three years; 12.8±2.7, for four to seven years; 13.8±2.2, for eight to 11 years; and 15.3±2.3, for 12 or more years. Total FAB scores correlated significantly with education (r=0.47; p<0.0001) and MMSE scores (r=0.39; p<0.0001). No correlation emerged between FAB scores, age, and gender. CONCLUSION: In this group of healthy subjects, the Brazilian version of the FAB proved to be influenced by the education level, but not by age and gender.

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Main Authors:	Beato,Rogério, Amaral-Carvalho,Viviane, Guimarães,Henrique Cerqueira, Tumas,Vitor, Souza,Carolina Pinto, Oliveira,Guiomar Nascimento de, Caramelli,Paulo
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO 2012
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2012000400011
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