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Differences in application driven cued stroop between adults with and without Parkinson’s disease: Pilot study
Burman, Justin
Burman, Justin
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2024-04-12
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Burman, Justin. 2024. Differences in application driven cued stroop between adults with and without Parkinson’s disease: Pilot study. -- In Proceedings: 23rd Annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, p. 11.
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Executive Function is a high-level cognitive skill often shown to progressively decline in persons diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The Cued Stroop test is a neurocognitive assessment tool commonly used to evaluate executive function. With increased use of app driven neurocognitive assessment tools a better understanding of usability of testing executive function for an individual with Parkinson’s Disease is necessary. PURPOSE: This study sought to identify differences in app driven Cued Stroop measures between older adults with and without PD. METHODS: 18 older adults, age 5781 years participated and were grouped (1) PD n=12 and nonPD, n=6. Participants performed the Cued Stroop test completing a total of 9 trials (3 trials at each week 1, week 2 and week 4) on a smartphone (iPhone 12 or Samsung 13, Sway Version 5.5.6). RESULTS: A Multivariate ANOVA was administered to determine Group (PD, nonPD) differences on averagedScore, averagedTime, and averagedErrors with covariate Age. Findings reported no significant differences in Cued Stroop averagedScore, averagedTime, and averagedErrors between individuals with and without Parkinson’s Disease, (p= 0.094, 0.900, 0.589), respectively. Although no significant differences were found, nonPD subject performance averagedScore (m=63.17, sd=21.78) was slightly better with fewer averagedErrors (m=3.54, sd=1.67) than a subject with PD (m=38.53, sd=31.44; m=3.70, sd=1.94), respectively. However, PD subjects tended to complete the Cued Stroop averagedTime (m=102.31, sd=29.58) task at a slightly faster pace than nonPD subjects (m=103.36, sd=13.35). CONCLUSION: These preliminary findings suggest that an app driven Cued Stroop test may be a useful executive function assessment tool regardless of cognitive skill level. Further research to increase the sample population size along with establishing test-retest reliability is necessary to better determine the appropriateness of this tool for evaluating executive function in an individual with PD.
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Presented to the 23rd Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Forum (URCAF) held at the Rhatigan Student Center, Wichita State University, April 12, 2024.
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Wichita State University
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URCAF;v.23