THEOCHAROUS, Stacey; SAVAGE, Greg; CHARALAMBOUS, Anna Pavlina; COTE, Mathieu; DAVID, Renaud; GALLANT, Kathleen; HELMER, Catherine; LAFORCE, Robert; LEROI, Iracema; MARTINS, Ralph N; NASREDDINE, Ziad; POLITIS, Antonis; REEVES, David; RUSSELL, Gregor; SIROIS, Marie-Josee; SOHRABI, Hamid R; THODI, Chyrssoula; VOLTER, Christiane; YEUNG, Wai Kent; DAWES, Piers

doi:10.1111/jgs.19020

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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2024-06-07

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BACKGROUND: Cognitive screening tools enable the detection of cognitive impairment, facilitate timely intervention, inform clinical care, and allow long-term planning. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment for people with hearing impairment (MoCA-H) was developed as a reliable cognitive screening tool for people with hearing loss. Using the same methodology across four languages, this study examined whether cultural or linguistic factors affect the performance of the MoCA-H. METHODS: The current study investigated the performance of the MoCA-H across English, German, French, and Greek language groups (n = 385) controlling for demographic factors known to affect the performance of the MoCA-H. RESULTS: In a multiple regression model accounting for age, sex, and education, cultural-linguistic group accounted for 6.89% of variance in the total MoCA-H score. Differences between languages in mean score of up to 2.6 points were observed. CONCLUSIONS: Cultural or linguistic factors have a clinically significant impact on the performance of the MoCA-H such that optimal performance cut points for identification of cognitive impairment derived in English-speaking populations are likely inappropriate for use in non-English speaking populations. To ensure reliable identification of cognitive impairment, it is essential that locally appropriate performance cut points are established for each translation of the MoCA-H.< Réduire

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Cognitive testing

Cross-cultural comparison

Hearing impaired persons

Mental status and dementia tests

Transcultural study

Validity and reliability

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https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/201193

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgs.19020

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Ears, Eyes and Mind: The ‘SENSE-Cog Project’ to improve mental well-being for elderly Europeans with sensory impairment

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Bordeaux Population Health Research Center (BPH) - UMR 1219

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A cross-cultural study of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment for people with hearing impairment