The MRC National Survey of Health of Development (NSHD) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 68-70 sweep using the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III (ACE-III): Fluency measure.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Domain | Verbal fluency |
| Measures: | Verbal fluency |
| Domain: | Glr (Long-Term Storage and Retrieval) |
| Administration method: | Research nurse. Mostly conducted using ACEmobile app, installed on iPad, with prompts to guide interviewer through the process. Pen and paper used where necessary (e.g. drawing tests). |
| Procedure: | In one minute, participants were asked to name as many words as possible beginning with a specific letter (excluding the names of people and countries). Next, they were given a minute to name as many animals as possible. |
| Link to questionnaire: | https://skylark.ucl.ac.uk/NSHD/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=mrepo:ace-iii.pdf (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | 0 - 14 (number of responses grouped into 7 categories, e.g. 0 - 1 items named = 0 points, 2 - 3 items named = 1 point, etc.) |
| Item-level variable(s): | Not currently available |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | ACEFLU15x |
| Descriptives: | Raw score |
| N = 2,101 | |
| Range = 1 - 14 | |
| Mean = 11.00 | |
| SD = 2.11 | |
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| Age of participants (months): | Mean = 834.14, SD = 2.93, Range = 828 - 848 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None |
| Source: | Mathuranath, P. S., Nestor, P. J., Berrios, G. E., Rakowicz, W., & Hodges, J. R. (2000). A brief cognitive test battery to differentiate Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Neurology, 55(11), 1613-1620. |
| Technical resources: | Noone, P. (2015). Addenbrooke's cognitive examination-III. Occupational Medicine, 65(5), 418-420. |
| Reference examples: | Matías-Guiu, J. A., Valles-Salgado, M., Rognoni, T., Hamre-Gil, F., Moreno-Ramos, T., & Matías-Guiu, J. (2017). Comparative diagnostic accuracy of the ACE-III, MIS, MMSE, MoCA, and RUDAS for screening of Alzheimer Disease. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 43(5-6), 237-246. |
| James, S. N., Davis, D., O'Hare, C., Sharma, N., John, A., Gaysina, D., ... & Richards, M. (2018). Lifetime affective problems and later-life cognitive state: Over 50 years of follow-up in a British birth cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 241, 348-355. |
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measures in NSHD
- Overview of adulthood cognitive measures across all studies
This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.