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Article

Feasibility Study of an Internet-Based Platform for Tele-Neuropsychological Assessment of Elderly in Remote Areas

by
Radia Zeghari
1,*,
Rachid Guerchouche
1,2,
Minh Tran-Duc
2,
François Bremond
1,2,
Kai Langel
3,
Inez Ramakers
4,
Nathalie Amiel
5,
Maria Pascale Lemoine
5,
Vincent Bultingaire
5,
Valeria Manera
1,
Philippe Robert
1 and
Alexandra König
1,2
1
Cognition Behavior Technology (CoBTeK) Lab, FRIS-Université Côte d’Azur, 06000 Nice, France
2
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), 06902 Valbonne, France
3
Janssen Clinical Innovation (JCI), Janssen Research & Development, Division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, 2340 Beerse, Belgium
4
MHeNs School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6211 LK Maastricht, The Netherlands
5
Consultation Mémoire, Centre Hospitalier Digne-les-Bains, 04000 Digne-les-Bains, France
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Diagnostics 2022, 12(4), 925; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040925
Submission received: 23 February 2022 / Revised: 1 April 2022 / Accepted: 5 April 2022 / Published: 7 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Devices)
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Abstract

Today, in rural isolated areas or so-called ‘medical deserts’, access to diagnosis and care is very limited. With the current pandemic crisis, now even more than ever, telemedicine platforms are gradually more employed for remote medical assessment. Only a few are tailored to comprehensive teleneuropsychological assessment of older adults. Hence, our study focuses on evaluating the feasibility of performing a remote neuropsychological assessment of older adults suffering from a cognitive complaint. 50 participants (aged 55 and older) were recruited at the local hospital of Digne-les-Bains, France. A brief neuropsychological assessment including a short clinical interview and several validated neuropsychological tests was administered in two conditions, once by Teleneuropsychology (TNP) and once by Face-to-Face (FTF) in a crossover design. Acceptability and user experience was assessed through questionnaires. Results show high agreement in most tests between the FTF and TNP conditions. The TNP was overall well accepted by the participants. However, differences in test performances were observed, which urges the need to validate TNP tests with broader samples with normative data.
Keywords: telemedicine; cognitive testing; dementia; teleneuropsychology; neuropsychology telemedicine; cognitive testing; dementia; teleneuropsychology; neuropsychology

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Zeghari, R.; Guerchouche, R.; Tran-Duc, M.; Bremond, F.; Langel, K.; Ramakers, I.; Amiel, N.; Lemoine, M.P.; Bultingaire, V.; Manera, V.; et al. Feasibility Study of an Internet-Based Platform for Tele-Neuropsychological Assessment of Elderly in Remote Areas. Diagnostics 2022, 12, 925. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040925

AMA Style

Zeghari R, Guerchouche R, Tran-Duc M, Bremond F, Langel K, Ramakers I, Amiel N, Lemoine MP, Bultingaire V, Manera V, et al. Feasibility Study of an Internet-Based Platform for Tele-Neuropsychological Assessment of Elderly in Remote Areas. Diagnostics. 2022; 12(4):925. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040925

Chicago/Turabian Style

Zeghari, Radia, Rachid Guerchouche, Minh Tran-Duc, François Bremond, Kai Langel, Inez Ramakers, Nathalie Amiel, Maria Pascale Lemoine, Vincent Bultingaire, Valeria Manera, and et al. 2022. "Feasibility Study of an Internet-Based Platform for Tele-Neuropsychological Assessment of Elderly in Remote Areas" Diagnostics 12, no. 4: 925. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040925

APA Style

Zeghari, R., Guerchouche, R., Tran-Duc, M., Bremond, F., Langel, K., Ramakers, I., Amiel, N., Lemoine, M. P., Bultingaire, V., Manera, V., Robert, P., & König, A. (2022). Feasibility Study of an Internet-Based Platform for Tele-Neuropsychological Assessment of Elderly in Remote Areas. Diagnostics, 12(4), 925. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040925

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