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Comparison of Neuropsychological Assessment by Videoconference and Face to Face

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2021

Richard Gnassounou ,
Bénédicte Defontaines ,
Séverine Denolle ,
Stéphanie Brun ,
Raphaël Germain ,
Déborah Schwartz ,
Stéphane Schück ,
Agnès Michon ,
Catherine Belin  and
Didier Maillet Open the ORCID record for Didier Maillet [Opens in a new window]
Richard Gnassounou
Affiliation:
Association Réseau Mémoire Aloïs, 75 rue de Lourmel, Paris, France
Bénédicte Defontaines
Affiliation:
Association Réseau Mémoire Aloïs, 75 rue de Lourmel, Paris, France
Séverine Denolle
Affiliation:
Association Réseau Mémoire Aloïs, 75 rue de Lourmel, Paris, France
Stéphanie Brun
Affiliation:
Association Réseau Mémoire Aloïs, 75 rue de Lourmel, Paris, France
Raphaël Germain
Affiliation:
Kappa Santé, 4 rue de Cléry, Paris, France
Déborah Schwartz
Affiliation:
Kappa Santé, 4 rue de Cléry, Paris, France
Stéphane Schück
Affiliation:
Kappa Santé, 4 rue de Cléry, Paris, France
Agnès Michon
Affiliation:
Département des Maladies du Système Nerveux, Institut de la mémoire et de la maladie d’Alzheimer (IM2A), Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France
Catherine Belin
Affiliation:
Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, Paris, France
Didier Maillet*
Affiliation:
Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Saint Louis, AP-HP, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, Paris, France Université de. Lille, ULR 4072 – PSITEC – Psychologie: Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition, Lille, France
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*Correspondence and reprint requests to: Didier Maillet, Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Saint Louis, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, ParisF-75010, France. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Objective:

To compare the administration of neuropsychological tests by teleneuropsychology (TeleNP) and face to face (F-F) in order to determine the feasibility and reliability of TeleNP.

Method:

At the inclusion visit, all participants underwent a traditional F-F neuropsychological assessment as part of their standard care. Four months after inclusion, they were randomized to undergo an additional neuropsychological assessment either by F-F administration or by TeleNP.

Results:

A total of 150 adults with cognitive complaints, but with no major cognitive or sensorial impairment were included. At 4 months, 69 participants were randomized in the F-F arm and 71 in TeleNP arm (10 lost in the follow-up). The overall satisfaction was high: 87.1% in the TeleNP arm were “very satisfied”, and 82.9% indicated no preference between F-F and TeleNP. In agreement with previous data from the literature, neuropsychological assessments gave similar results across both administration conditions for a large majority of tests [Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) French version, Mahieux gestural praxis battery, Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB), time of completion of the Trail making Test (TMT) A and B, number of errors of the TMT B, Rey complex figure test, categorical et phonological verbal fluency tests] and minor differences for others [80-picture naming test (DO-80), FAB, Digit Span forward and backward and number of errors in the TMT A].

Conclusions:

TeleNP is a promising method to be able to test patients as an alternative to F-F condition. Before this procedure can be generalized, it is now necessary to standardize the adaptation of certain tests and to test them in populations with more significant cognitive disorders.

Keywords

Cognitive assessmentDementiaAlzheimer’s diseaseNeuropsychological testsTeleneuropsychologyVideoconference
Type
Regular Research
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 28 , Issue 5 , May 2022 , pp. 483 - 493
Copyright
Copyright © INS. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2021

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