Adaptação da Bateria Montreal de Avaliação da Comunicação

: (versão brasileira MAC-BR) para o português europeu

Abstract

Individuals with Right Hemisphere Lesion (RHL) can present communicative deficits, mainly related with lexical-semantic, prosodic pragmatic-inferential and/or discursive processing. In the meantime, there is an insufficiency regarding the assessment tools of communication that are properly validated and adapted, to the Portuguese socio-cultural-linguistics. The goals of this study were: 1) neuro-psycholinguistics adaptation of the Bateria Montreal de Avaliação de Comunicação - Bateria MAC-BR - to the Portuguese social cultural reality - Bateria MAC-PT (Part 1) and, 2) to determine the effect of the variables age and education in the performance of healthy adults in the Bateria MAC-PT (Part 2). Part 1 involved six steps: 1) comparative analyses in Bateria MAC-BR to its original Canadian version; 2) adaptation and development of new stimuli by specialists; 3) analysis by non-expert judges, 4) analysis by expert judges; 5) pilot Study 1 (n=10); e 6) pilot Study 2 (n=30) as well as inter-rater agreement. Study 2 was composed by 90 individuals, divided in nine groups according to education (4 to 9; 10 to 13; and over 13 years) and age (19 to 40; 41 to 64; and 65 to 80 years). For comparison analysis between groups it was used the two-way test ANOVA, with post hoc Bonferroni (p≤0.05). Part 1 allowed a proper adaptation of the Bateria MAC-BR to the social-cultural and linguistic Portuguese reality. In Part 2 it was found that the variable Age influenced subjects’ performance in pragmatic-inferential, discursive and prosodic tasks. As for the variable education it influenced the performance in all processes evaluated by Bateria MAC-PT. This work was able to adapt a clinical usefull tool for the assessment of the communication concerning the four processes examined by MAC-PT. Furthermore, the variables showed that age and education influenced the communicative performance and should be considered in the evaluation process of neurological patients

Date of Award	2012
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Ana Mineiro (Supervisor) & Rochele Paz Fonseca (Co-Supervisor)