Translation and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III into Egyptian Arabic

Translation and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III into Egyptian Arabic

Royal College of Psychiatrists international Congress 2014

عنوان البحث

Translation and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III into Egyptian Arabic

تاريخ النشر

2014

جهة النشر

Royal College of Psychiatrists international Congress 2014

==مجال البحث == طبنفس مسنين

نوع البحث

بوستر

تصنيف البحث

طبنفس مسنين

URL

الموقع الالكترونى للبحث https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263853777_Translation_and_Cross-cultural_Adaptation_of_the_Addenbrookes_Cognitive_Examination_III_into_Egyptian_Arabic

تاريخ قبول البحث

2014

عدد الصفحات

1

مكان إجراء البحث

مصر

ملخص البحث باللغة الاصلية

Orienta'on, Memory, Verbal Fluency, Language, and Visuospa'al Abili'es) are commonly impaired in demen'as. OBJECTIVES: To describe the qualita've process of selec'on, transla'on and cultural adapta'on of ACE-­‐III for use in the Egyp'an-­‐Arabic speaking popula'on. METHOD: First, the ques'onnaire was translated into Arabic, and then back-­‐translated into English. The process was then repeated un'l a consensus was reached about the op'mal transla'on. In addi'on, we modified the test to culturally adapt it to the Egyp'an popula'on. We modified the following parts of the ACE III: LeTer fluency, Name and address registra'on task, Knowledge memory task, Language repeon tasks, Picture naming and recogni'on, Reading, Recogni'on of camouflaged pictures. The modified ACE III was then piloted on 20 subjects with no complaint of cogni've impairment. RESULTS: Pilot subjects included 13 males and 7 female. The mean age of the subjects was 42.85 (SD=18.32) years. Performance on the culturally-­‐adopted items was as follows: on LeTer fluency subjects generated an average of 9.95 (SD=3.22) words per minute. Category fluency subjects generated an average of 31 (SD=15.7) words per minute. On comprehension, proverb repeon and reading fragmented leTers, the subjects made no errors. 85% (n=17) of the subjects made no errors on knowledge task. On word repeon, 95% (n=19) of the subjects made no errors. Of the 6 culturally-­‐adapted pictures for the Egyp'an popula'on, 100% (n=20) of the subjects were able to correctly iden'fy the lion, Aud (Lute), and Lamp; 95% (n=19) of the subjects were able to correctly iden'fy a giraffe; 90% (n=18) of the subjects were able to correctly iden'fy a parrot; and only 55% were able to correctly iden'fy a violin. CONCLUSION: Egyp'an Arabic m-­‐ACE III appears to be culturally equivalent aher all forms of biases or social norms specific to the culture of origin have been removed.

ملخص البحث باللغة العربية

نتائج ترجمة إختبار النسخة العربية لإختبار أدينبروك للوظائف المعرفية على عينة من البالغين. تم ربط التعليم والأمية بنتائج الإختبار.

ملاحظات

تم إنتاج نسخة عربية من الإختبار

رابط

Objec<ve: To invesLgate factors affecLng le&er and category fluency across the lifespan in an apparently healthy sample of EgypLan adults. Background: There is limited published data on verbal fluency in Arabic-speaking populaLons and none in EgypLan-Arabic, so we undertook to establish norms of le&er and category fluency in the EgypLan Arabic-speaking populaLon as part of a wider effort to establish normaLve data in cogniLve tesLng in the EgypLan populaLon.

Methods: We evaluated 130 cogniLvely healthy volunteers (54.6% men, 45.4% women) aged between 20 and 91 years (mean= 50.1 years). We straLfied the parLcipants by degree of educaLon (reads and writes, primary, preparatory, secondary, vocaLonal or university educaLon) and social class (very low, low, middle and high). None of the parLcipants had any complaints of cogniLve decline or history of neurological or psychiatric illness.

Results: In le&er fluency tasks, mean number of words generated in one minute beginning with the Arabic le&er “Sheen” (pronounced “sh”) was 8.17 (SD=3.28). Le&er fluency was significantly influenced by bi/mulLlingualism (p=0.017, regression co-efficient=1.683), and by degree of educaLon (p=0.001, regression co-efficient=0.811). In le&er fluency task, age had no significant effect (p>0.05). In category fluency tasks, mean number of names of animals in one minute was 14.85 (SD=5.376). Category fluency was significantly influenced by bi/mulLlingualism (p=0.045, regression co-efficient=2.184), age (p<0.001, regression co-efficient=-.116 ) and educaLon (p=0.037, regression co-efficient=0.711) . In either tasks gender and social class had no significant effect (p>0.05).

Conclusions: In this study we were able to establish normaLve data for le&er and category fluency in the EgypLan-Arabic populaLon and idenLfy a number of factors influencing them. While age significantly affects category fluency, it does not have an influence on le&er fluency. Bi/mulLlingualism significantly affected le&er fluency, but not category fluency. Degree of educaLon significantly affected both, while gender and social class had no effect on either.