Normative Data for theRappel libre/Rappel indicé à 16 items(16-item Free and Cued Recall) in the Elderly Quebec-French Population

Performance on verbal memory tests is generally associated with socio-demographic variables such as age, sex, and education level. Performance also varies between different cultural groups. The present study aimed to establish normative data for the Rappel libre/Rappel indicé à 16 items (16-item Free and Cued Recall; RL/RI-16), a French adaptation of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (Buschke, 1984 Buschke, H. (1984). Cued recall in amnesia. Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology , 6 , 433–440.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Grober, Buschke, Crystal, Bang, & Dresner, 1988 Grober, E. , Buschke, H. , Crystal, H. , Bang, S. , & Dresner, R. (1988). Screening for dementia by memory testing. Neurology , 38 , 900–903.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). The sample consisted of 566 healthy French-speaking older adults (50–88 years old) from the province of Quebec, Canada. Normative data for the RL/RI-16 were derived from 80% of the total sample (normative sample) and cross-validated using the remaining participants (20%; validation sample). The effects of participants’ age, sex, and education level were assessed on different indices of memory performance. Results indicated that these variables were independently associated with performance. Normative data are presented as regression equations with standard deviations (symmetric distributions) and percentiles (asymmetric distributions).