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Performance on an everyday life activity in persons diagnosed with alcohol dependency compared to healthy controls: Relations between a computerized shopping task and cognitive and clinical variables.
Laloyaux, Julien; Michel, Céline; Mourad, Haitham et al.
2012In Alcohol and Alcoholism, 47 (3), p. 240-247
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Keywords :
Everyday life activities; Alcohol dependency; Ecological validity; Neurocognition; Social functioning; Computerized
Abstract :
[en] Aim: Persons diagnosed with alcohol dependency often suffer from cognitive impairments. Little is known, however, concerning how these cognitive deficits impact complex, everyday life activities. By this experiment, we wished to contribute to a better characterization of the nature of everyday life difficulties in patients with alcohol dependency using a computerized shopping task. Methods: We developed a computerized real-life activity task (shopping task), where participants are required to shop for a list of 8 grocery store items. Twenty individuals diagnosed with alcohol dependency and 20 healthy controls were administered a battery of cognitive tests, clinical scales and the computerized shopping task. Results: Performance on the computerized shopping task significantly differentiated patients and healthy controls for several variables and in particular for Total time. Moreover, Total time to complete the task correlated significantly with several cognitive measures. In particular, poor performance on measures of processing speed, verbal episodic memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibition were significantly correlated with longer Total time. Finally, longer Total time was significantly correlated with poorer everyday life functioning and longer duration of illness. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the computerized task used in the present study is a good proxy measure of the level of everyday life and cognitive functioning of persons diagnosed with alcohol dependency.
Disciplines :
Treatment & clinical psychology
Author, co-author :
Laloyaux, Julien ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Michel, Céline;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement
Mourad, Haitham;  Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège (Mental Health Sector)
Bertrand, Hervé;  Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège (Mental Health Sector)
Domken, Marc-André;  Intercommunale de Soins Spécialisés de Liège (Mental Health Sector)
Van der Linden, Martial ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychopathologie cognitive
Laroi, Frank  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychologie clinique cognitive et comportementale
Language :
English
Title :
Performance on an everyday life activity in persons diagnosed with alcohol dependency compared to healthy controls: Relations between a computerized shopping task and cognitive and clinical variables.
Publication date :
2012
Journal title :
Alcohol and Alcoholism
ISSN :
0735-0414
eISSN :
1464-3502
Publisher :
Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
47
Issue :
3
Pages :
240-247
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
AstraZeneca [BE]
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