The Construction of a Chinese Picture Naming Test and Its Preliminary Normative Data

Completed

• Conditions: Normality

• Registration Number: NCT00713232
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

Brief Summary

We will construct a Chinese Picture Naming test which include 60 items with various word frequency and familiarity and is arranged by their familiarity in daily life.

Then we will collect the normative data for this test using normal subjects of various age and educational level.

Detailed Description

In this study, we will first construct a Chinese Picture Naming Testing following the format of Boston Naming test. We will use the original 60 items from BNT and also choose another 100 items of objects with various frequency using the word frequency data from the Linguistic Corpus of the Academia Sinica. Colored pictures will be constructed accordingly. University students will be recruited to name the pictures and to judge the familiarity and image agreement for these pictures. Then, we will choose 60 pictures of according to the principles of 1. high image agreement 2. high naming agreement 3. including items of various familiarity and word frequency 4. double or triple phoneme words 5. including the original BNT items as possible. The 60 pictures will be arranged by their familiarity to construct the Chinese Picture Naming Test.

Then, we will recruit normal subjects of various age group and educational level to to the Naming test and to construct the preliminary norm.

Basic Information
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Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2007-05
• Study Start: 2007-05
• Primary Completion: 2007-06
• Study Completion: 2007-09
• Study First Submitted: 2008-07-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-07-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-07-09
• Study First Posted: 2008-07-11
• Last Update Posted: 2008-07-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 522

Inclusion Criteria

• living in Taiwan for more than 5 years fluent in Chinese

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Exclusion Criteria

• previous neurological, psychiatric or speech language disorders

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
naming accuracy	10 minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
image agreement	10 min
naming agreement	10 min

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan