Clinical usability of the Story-Based Empathy Task (SET) in non-demented ALS patients.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Frontotemporal degeneration
Neuropsychology
Social cognition
Story-Based Empathy Task
Journal
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
ISSN: 1590-3478
Titre abrégé: Neurol Sci
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 100959175
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
received:
25
02
2023
accepted:
31
03
2023
medline:
11
8
2023
pubmed:
6
4
2023
entrez:
5
4
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study aimed at assessing the clinical usability of the Story-Based Empathy Task (SET) in non-demented amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. N = 106 non-demented ALS patients and N = 101 healthy controls (HCs) were administered the SET, which includes three subtests assessing Emotion Attribution (SET-EA), Intention Attribution (SET-IA) and causal inference (SET-CI) - the latter being a control task. Patients also underwent the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) and a thorough behavioural and motor-functional evaluation. The diagnostics of the SET-EA and -IA were tested against a defective performance on the RMET. The association between SET subtests and cognitive/behavioural outcomes was examined net of demographic and motor-functional confounders. Case-control discrimination was explored for each SET subtest. Demographically adjusted SET-EA and -IA scores accurately detected defective RMET performances at the optimal cutoffs of <3.04 (AUC = .84) and <3.61 (AUC = .88), respectively. By contrast, the SET-CI performed poorly in doing so (AUC = .58). The SET-EA converged with the RMET, as well as with ECAS-Executive and -Memory scores, whilst the SET-IA was unrelated to cognitive measures (including the RMET); the SET-CI was related to the ECAS-Language the ECAS-Executive. SET subscores were unrelated to behavioural outcomes. Only the SET-EA discriminated patients from HCs. The SET as a whole should not be addressed as a social-cognitive measure in this population. At variance, its subtest tapping on emotional processing - i.e., the SET-EA - is recommended for use as an estimate of social-cognitive abilities in non-demented ALS patients.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
This study aimed at assessing the clinical usability of the Story-Based Empathy Task (SET) in non-demented amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients.
METHODS
METHODS
N = 106 non-demented ALS patients and N = 101 healthy controls (HCs) were administered the SET, which includes three subtests assessing Emotion Attribution (SET-EA), Intention Attribution (SET-IA) and causal inference (SET-CI) - the latter being a control task. Patients also underwent the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) and a thorough behavioural and motor-functional evaluation. The diagnostics of the SET-EA and -IA were tested against a defective performance on the RMET. The association between SET subtests and cognitive/behavioural outcomes was examined net of demographic and motor-functional confounders. Case-control discrimination was explored for each SET subtest.
RESULTS
RESULTS
Demographically adjusted SET-EA and -IA scores accurately detected defective RMET performances at the optimal cutoffs of <3.04 (AUC = .84) and <3.61 (AUC = .88), respectively. By contrast, the SET-CI performed poorly in doing so (AUC = .58). The SET-EA converged with the RMET, as well as with ECAS-Executive and -Memory scores, whilst the SET-IA was unrelated to cognitive measures (including the RMET); the SET-CI was related to the ECAS-Language the ECAS-Executive. SET subscores were unrelated to behavioural outcomes. Only the SET-EA discriminated patients from HCs.
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
The SET as a whole should not be addressed as a social-cognitive measure in this population. At variance, its subtest tapping on emotional processing - i.e., the SET-EA - is recommended for use as an estimate of social-cognitive abilities in non-demented ALS patients.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37017748
doi: 10.1007/s10072-023-06791-z
pii: 10.1007/s10072-023-06791-z
doi:
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Langues
eng
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© 2023. Fondazione Società Italiana di Neurologia.
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