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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
卷 39, 期 2, 页码 163-172出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2016.1209464
关键词
Cognition; Cross-cultural; Dementia; Neuropsychological tests; Sensitivity and specificity
资金
- Innovatiefonds Zorgverzekeraars (Innovation Fund Insurance Companies) [1433]
- innovation fund of Stichting Transmuraal (Transition Foundation)
Objective: Currently, approximately 3.9% of the European population are non-EU citizens, and a large part of these people are from non-Western societies, such as Turkey and Morocco. For various reasons, the incidence of dementia in this group is expected to increase. However, cognitive testing is challenging due to language barriers and low education and/or illiteracy. The newly developed Cross-Cultural Dementia Screening (CCD) can be administered without an interpreter. It contains three subtests that assess memory, mental speed, and executive function. We hypothesized the CCD to be a culture-fair test that could discriminate between demented patients and cognitively healthy controls. Method: To test this hypothesis, 54 patients who had probable dementia were recruited via memory clinics. Controls (N = 1625) were recruited via their general practitioners. All patients and controls were aged 55 years and older and of six different self-defined ethnicities (Dutch, Turkish, Moroccan-Arabic, Moroccan-Berber, Surinamese-Creole, and Surinamese-Hindustani). Exclusion criteria included current or previous conditions that affect cognitive functioning. Results: There were performance differences between the ethnic groups, but these disappeared after correcting for age and education differences between the groups, which supports our central hypothesis that the CCD is a culture-fair test. Receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) and logistic regression analyses showed that the CCD has high predictive validity for dementia (sensitivity: 85%; specificity: 89%). Discussion: The CCD is a sensitive and culture-fair neuropsychological instrument for dementia screening in low-educated immigrant populations.
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