Assessing of the Italian version of the Memory Strategy Test (TMS) in people with Parkinson disease: A preliminary descriptive psychometric study

• Author(s): Vaccaro, Maria Grazia ; Pullano, Luca ; Canino, Silvia ; Pastore, Massimiliano ; Sarica, Alessia ; Quattrone, Andrea ; Migliorini, Filippo ; Maestu, Fernando ; Quattrone, Aldo ; Fernandes, Sara M.
• Date: 2023
• Persistent ID: Vaccaro, M. G., Pullano, L., Canino, S., Pastore, M., Sarica, A., Quattrone, A., Fernandes, S. M., Migliorini, F., Maestu, F., & Quattrone , A. (2023). Assessing of the Italian version of the Memory Strategy Test (TMS) in people with Parkinson disease: A preliminary descriptive psychometric study. Neurological Sciences, (Published online: 24 june 2023), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-023-06906-6. Repositório Institucional UPT. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/4878
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade Portucalense
• Subject(s): Memory Strategies Test; Parkinson’s disease; Neuropsychological Assessment; Executive Functions; Psychometric Properties
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

Previous literature has shown that executive functions (EF) are related to performance in memory (M) tasks. The Test of Memory strategies (TMS) is a psychometric test that examines EF and M simultaneously and it was recently validated on an Italian healthy cohort. The first aim of the study was to apply TMS, for the first time, on a sample of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), who are characterized by mild cognitive impairment. The second aim is to investigate whether TMS scores can discriminate PD patients from healthy controls.