Poster Session 04 Program Schedule
02/15/2024
12:00 pm - 01:15 pm
Room: Majestic Complex (Posters 61-120)
Poster Session 04: Neuroimaging | Neurostimulation/Neuromodulation | Teleneuropsychology/Technology
Final Abstract #100
Remote Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Parkinson’s Disease and Cerebellar Ataxia Patients who Speak English and Hebrew
Sharon Binoy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
William Saban, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Category: Teleneuropsychology/ Technology
Keyword 1: mild cognitive impairment
Keyword 2: ataxia
Keyword 3: Parkinson's disease
Objective:
We tested the efficiency, validity, and generalizability of collecting online MoCA data in English and Hebrew and on three different populations: Parkinson's Disease (PD), Cerebellar Ataxia (CA), and neurotypical controls.
Participants and Methods:
First, we assessed the convergent validity of the online MoCA by comparing our results to those of in-person studies. Second, we evaluated construct validity by comparing the performance of our patient groups to that of our neurotypical controls. Third, we examined the efficiency of online testing and its generalizability to different language-speaking populations. Our study included a total of 120 participants, who completed version 8.1 of the MoCA: 50% were assessed via the English version, and the rest via the Hebrew version. For each language, we administer the MoCA to 20 participants in each group: Control, PD, and CA.
Results:
The results show that our online MoCA scores do not differ from in-person studies for all groups. Also, our patient MoCA values were lower than the neurotypical controls. Finally, we did not find differences between the two language versions of the MoCA.
Conclusions:
These findings demonstrate the remote MoCA's efficiency, validity, and generalizability. Given these results, future studies can utilize the remote MoCA and potentially other neuropsychological tests to collect data more efficiently from multiple patient groups, nations, and language speakers.
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