Bateria Montreal de Avaliação da Comunicação - versão portuguesa: efeito da idade e escolaridade Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery - Portuguese version: age and education effects

ABSTRACT Purpose: To verify age and education effects on communication performance of healthy adults in the Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery, Portuguese version (MAC-PT). Methods: The sample comprised 90 healthy adults from Portugal, European Portuguese speakers, divided into nine groups according to educational level (4–9, 10–13, and >13 years of formal schooling) and age (19–40, 41–64, and 65–80 years). The influence of age and education was assessed by comparing mean scores between groups, using a two-way analysis of variance followed by Bonferroni post hoc tests ( p ≤0.05). Results: The results showed that participants’ performance was influenced by age in pragmatic-inferential, discursive, and prosodic tasks. Education had the greatest influence on the performance in all processes evaluated by the MAC-PT. Conclusion: Age and education seem to influence the communicative performance and should be considered in the assessment of neurological patients. DOI: 10.1590/2317-1782/20152015029