a Department of Psychology , Rochester Institute of Technology , Rochester , NY , USA.
b Department of Neurology , University at Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY) , Buffalo , NY , USA.
Clin Neuropsychol. 2018 Jan;32(1):54-62. doi: 10.1080/13854046.2017.1354071. Epub 2017 Jul 19.
In answer to the call for improved accessibility of neuropsychological services to the international community, the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS; MS) was validated in multiple, non-English-speaking countries. It was created to monitor processing speed and learning in MS patients, including abbreviated versions of the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, California Verbal Learning Test, 2nd Edition, and the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test, Revised. The objective of the present study was to examine whether participant nationality impacts performance above and beyond common demographic correlates.
We combined published data-sets from Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Iran, and the U.S.A. resulting in a database of 1,097 healthy adults, before examining the data via multiple regression.
Nationality significantly predicted performance on all three BICAMS tests after controlling for age and years of education. Interactions among the core predictor variables were non-significant.
We demonstrated that nationality significantly influences BICAMS performance and established the importance of the inclusion of a nationality variable when international norms for the BICAMS are constructed.
为响应提高神经心理学服务在国际社会中可及性的呼吁，简短国际认知评估多发性硬化症（BICAMS；MS）在多个非英语国家得到了验证。它旨在监测多发性硬化症患者的处理速度和学习能力，包括符号数字模态测试、加利福尼亚语言学习测试第二版和简短视觉空间记忆测试修订版的缩写版本。本研究的目的是检验参与者的国籍是否会对表现产生影响，而不仅仅是常见的人口统计学相关因素。
我们合并了来自阿根廷、巴西、捷克共和国、伊朗和美国的已发表数据集，得出了一个包含 1097 名健康成年人的数据库，然后通过多元回归分析数据。
在控制年龄和受教育年限后，国籍显著预测了所有三个 BICAMS 测试的表现。核心预测变量之间的相互作用不显著。
我们证明了国籍显著影响 BICAMS 的表现，并确立了当构建 BICAMS 的国际标准时纳入国籍变量的重要性。
