scholarly journals Effects of Illiteracy on the European Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery (CNTB)

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 713-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Rune Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Test Performance ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Significant Group ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery ◽  
Turkish Immigrants ◽  
Participant Characteristics ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Objectives Test performances of illiterate and literate immigrants were compared to investigate the effects of illiteracy on the European Cross-cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery (CNTB), and associations between test performance and participant characteristics were examined. Method Participants were 20 illiterate and 21 literate middle-aged and older Turkish immigrants (50–85 years) matched by age and gender that completed the CNTB as well as a number of demographic and medical questionnaires. Results No significant group differences or correlations between education, acculturation or health characteristics and test performances were found on 10 of 16 measures. Illiteracy status and participant characteristics affected measures of mental processing speed, executive function, and visuoconstruction. Conclusions The preliminary findings suggest that several of the measures in the CNTB may be valid for assessment of cognitive functioning in people who are illiterate when applied using available normative data. However, these findings need to be replicated in larger samples.

scholarly journals Brazilian version of the European Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery (CNTB-BR): diagnostic accuracy across schooling levels

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narahyana B. Araujo ◽  
Thomas R. Nielsen ◽  
Maria L. Barca ◽  
Knut Engedal ◽  
Valeska Marinho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Accuracy ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery ◽  
Brazilian Version

European Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery--Brazilian Portuguese Version

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narahyana B. Araujo ◽  
Thomas R. Nielsen ◽  
Maria L. Barca ◽  
Knut Engedal ◽  
Valeska Marinho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery ◽  
Portuguese Version

P3-260: THE EUROPEAN CROSS-CULTURAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST BATTERY (CNTB)

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. P727-P727
Author(s):  
T. Rune Nielsen ◽  
Peter Bekkhus-Wetterberg ◽  
Gunhild Waldemar
Keyword(s):  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery

P1-135 Factor validity and cross-cultural equivalence of a core neuropsychological test battery in elderly African Americans

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. S134
Author(s):  
Otto Pedraza ◽  
John A. Lucas ◽  
Glenn E. Smith ◽  
Floyd B. Willis ◽  
Neill R. Graff-Radford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery

Effects of Acculturation on the Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery (CNTB) in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Population in Denmark

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Al-Jawahiri ◽  
T Rune Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Executive Function ◽  
Processing Speed ◽  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery ◽  
Significant Difference

Abstract Objective Assessment of individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds is a major challenge in current clinical neuropsychology as most neuropsychological tests are biased by linguistic, educational, and cultural differences. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of acculturation on the newly developed European Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery. Method The study was a cross-sectional study carried out in Copenhagen, Denmark. Neuropsychological test performances of a Danish sample were compared to a culturally and linguistically diverse sample, and the effects of a number of acculturation variables were assessed using group comparisons, correlation analyses, and regression analyses. Results A total of 152 participants were included in the study: 26 were native-born monolingual Danes and 126 had culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: 66 were immigrants from Turkey, 41 from Poland, and 19 from former Yugoslavia. In direct comparison, the only significant difference between the Danish and culturally and linguistically diverse samples was found on Animal Fluency. However, within the culturally and linguistically diverse sample, higher and lower acculturated groups significantly differed on several measures. The main associations between neuropsychological test performance and acculturation variables were found on measures loading on processing speed and executive function. Conclusions Overall, only limited effects of acculturation were found on the European Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery. However, administering cross-cultural measures in the preferred language may not be sufficient to resolve challenges in cross-cultural assessment of processing speed and executive function as concept of speed and speeded performance is highly culture dependent.

Performance of middle-aged and elderly European minority and majority populations on a Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Test Battery (CNTB)

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 1411-1430 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Rune Nielsen ◽  
Kurt Segers ◽  
Valérie Vanderaspoilden ◽  
Peter Bekkhus-Wetterberg ◽  
Lennart Minthon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neuropsychological Test ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Battery ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Neuropsychological Test Battery
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document