Normative data on trail making test for general Malaysian adult population above 40 years old in Klinik Kesihatan Salak on 2013

Mahat, Nur Atikah and Hindu, Nur Syuhada (2013) Normative data on trail making test for general Malaysian adult population above 40 years old in Klinik Kesihatan Salak on 2013. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Background: Trail Making Test (TMT) is one of the most popular, economical and easily administered instruments used in the clinical setting to measure general brain functions. It has been used in the diagnosis and evaluation of cognitive dysfunction for over 50 years. TMT assesses the psychomotor speed, attention, sequencing, mental flexibility and visual scanning. There were two parts: Trail A and Trail B, Trail A tests the attention while arranging numbers while Trail B tests executive function while arranging numbers and alphabets. Objective: The general objective for this study was to determine normative data of TMT performance in the general Malaysian adult population above 40 years old. The specific objective was to determine the relationship between the sociodemographic factors which were age, gender, education level and race to the TMT performance. Methods: The study design was a cross sectional observational community study with convenience sampling method. The subjects were all the adults above the age of 40 years old that visited the Klinik Kesihatan Salak between the periods of 15 July-l August 2013 with their medical record. Adults who visited the Klinik Kesihatan Salak with medical history of neurological diseases, illnesses that affecting brain function, head trauma, significant psychiatric disturbance, do not understand the instruction given and also having vision or hearing problem were excluded from this study. Result: There were 160 respondents. The minimum score of TMT A and TMT Bare 20.00 seconds and 28.00 second respectively. While the maximum score of TMT A and TMT Bare 188.00 seconds and 480.00 seconds respectively. Non-parametric method was used to identify the relationship between sociodemographic factors to the TMT performance. There was a significant fair direct correlation between age and TMT score, TMT A (rs=0.48, p < 0.05), TMT B (rs=0.42, p < 0.05). While for gender, there was no significant association between gender and TMT score (TMT A, P > 0.05), TMT B (p > 0.05). For race, there was no significant association between race and TMT score (TMT A, P > 0.05), TMT B (p > 0.05). Lastly for educational level, there was significant association between education level and TMT score (TMT A, P < 0.05), TMT B (p < 0.05). Conclusion: This study reveals that these four sociodemographic factors (age, gender, race and educational level) were closely related to the TMT performance. Based on our finding, there were statistically significance difference between the age and educational level with the TMT performance which showed alternative hypothesis. Besides, there were no statistically significant difference between gender and race with the TMT performance which showed null hypothesis. Keyword: Trail Making Test (TMT), age, gender, education level, culture

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms. Adni Syuhaida Zon
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2022 08:21
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2023 03:00
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/292

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