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Effects of Age and Cognition on a Cross-Cultural Paediatric Adaptation of the Sniffin' Sticks Identification Test

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  • Laís Orrico Donnabella Bastos
  • Marilisa Mantovani Guerreiro
  • Andrew John Lees
  • Thomas T Warner
  • Laura Silveira-Moriyama

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Objectives: To study the effects of age and cognition on the performance of children aged 3 to 18 years on a culturally adapted version of the 16 item smell identification test from Sniffin' Sticks (SS16). Methods: A series of pilots were conducted on 29 children aged 3 to 18 years old and 23 adults to produce an adapted version of the SS16 suitable for Brazilian children (SS16-Child). A final version was applied to 51 children alongside a picture identification test (PIT-SS16-Child) to access cognitive abilities involved in the smell identification task. In addition 20 adults performed the same tasks as a comparison group. Results: The final adapted SS16-Child was applied to 51 children with a mean age of 9.9 years (range 3-18 years, SD=4.25 years), of which 68.3% were girls. There was an independent effect of age (p

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  • Laís Orrico Donnabella Bastos & Marilisa Mantovani Guerreiro & Andrew John Lees & Thomas T Warner & Laura Silveira-Moriyama, 2015. "Effects of Age and Cognition on a Cross-Cultural Paediatric Adaptation of the Sniffin' Sticks Identification Test," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(8), pages 1-13, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0131641
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131641
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