Validation of the Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) as a cognitive screening test in patients with acquired brain injury in Turkey

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 315-321

  Kutlay, Şehim ^a   Kuçukdeveci, Ayşe A ^a   Elhan, Atilla H ^a   Yavuzer, Gunȩs ^a   Tennant, Alan ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquired brain injury patients; Cognitive screening; Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS); Rasch analysis; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EFFECT SIZE; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MIDDLESEX ELDERLY ASSESSMENT OF MENTAL STATE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RASCH ANALYSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VALIDATION PROCESS; ADOLESCENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TURKEY;

EID: 34147094758     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280600756612     Document Type: Article

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