An Investigation of the Word Recall: Cognitive Assessment in Aged Person from The Health, Aging and Retirement in Thailand (HART) Project
Keywords:
Cognition, Aged Person, Difficulty Level, Discriminating Power, Reliability, Aging and Retirement in Thailand (HART) ProjectAbstract
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the ten-word recall test which is an effective tool in cognition assessment. Data from the Survey from HART project, Panel 2022-2023, Wave 4 have been used for in-depth analysis. Our analysis first focuses on understanding difficulty level, discriminating power and reliability of the four sets of the ten-word recall test by utilizing descriptive statistics. We then compare difficulty level and discriminating power among the four sets of the ten-word recall test by one-way ANOVA.
Our findings reveal that all four sets can be classified as moderate with regards to their difficulty level with eight out of ten words. Moreover, only the first set has very good discriminating power with eight out of ten words whereas the other three sets also have very good discriminating power with six out of ten words. Moreover, both discriminating power and difficulty level have a statistically nonsignificant difference means among the score from four sets of ten-word recall test. Besides, improving reliability is necessary.
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