Normative Scores on the Trail Making Test for the Icelandic Population

The purpose of this study was to bring about normative scores for the Trail Making Test for the Icelandic population because until now, specialists administering the test for Icelandic patients had been using normative scores from foreign nations to evaluate their performance. The aim was to demonstrate the affect age, gender and education had on the performance time in the Trail Making Test. The initial sample was recruited from another study conducted by Decode Genetics, and the division of psychiatry at Landspitali University Hospital. After excluding the participants that suffered from neurological or psychiatric disease and head trauma, the participants who had no educational information and those in the 18-19 and 60-65 age range, the final normative sample that was used in the analysis consisted of 400 participants. Factorial Analysis of Variance was used to demonstrate the affect age, gender and education had on the performance time in the Trail Making Test. The result indicates that age and education affect participant's performances time on the test. As participants grew older the performance time increases and as their level of education got higher their performance time decreased. Gender had no significant effect on the performance time in the test. Keywords: The Trail Making Test, age, gender, education.

Author dc:creator

• Ásmundur Pálsson 1988-

Contributors dc:contributor

• Háskólinn í Reykjavík

• Sálfræði
• Taugasálfræði
• Minni
• Psychology
• Neuropsychological tests

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1946/16643

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:skemman.is:1946/16643