Table 3 Principal components analysis and reliability analysis for Test A.

From: Development of a self-administered web-based test for longitudinal cognitive assessment

 

Correct answers Mean (Standard Deviation) % Correct response

 

Principal component analysis

Patients

Controls

Reliability analysis

Corrected Item-Total Correlation

Cronbach’s Alpha if Item Deleted

Word categories task

8.24 (4.49) 81.4%

11.59 (4.03) 92.1%

0.818

0.744

0.888

Attention task II

19.94 (10.79) 93.7%

22.16 (7.79) 98.0%

0.698

0.614

0.900

Sequences

5.24 (3.53) 88.0%

8.80(4.16) 97.0%

0.777

0.704

0.892

Visual memory task I

5.59 (2.68) 84.8%

6.22 (1.82) 93.6%

0.495A

Puzzles

2.00 (1.37) 100%

2.71 (1.79) 100%

0.693

0.614

0.900

Written comprehension

14.18 (3.22) 88.0%

15.35 (3.49) 97.9%

0.789

0.717

0.891

Shopping task

3.90 (2.88) 88.0%

6.29 (3.22) 96.0%

0.803

0.728

0.890

Verbal memory task

4.02 (2.14) 89.1%

4.96 (2.36) 96.8%

0.774

0.704

0.892

Inhibitory control

23.94 (8.46) 86.1%

26.18 (8.08) 97.7%

0.819

0.750

0.888

  1. Overall Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.91; Variance explained by the first component was 55.8%.
  2. ASubtest discarded after observing the principal component analysis results (factor loading <0.50).