Validation of a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) for the Persian population: A pilot study

Applied Neuropsychology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 190-195

  Ansari, Noureddin Nakhostin ^a   Naghdi, Soofia ^a   Hasson, Scott ^b   Valizadeh, Leala ^a   Jalaie, Shohreh ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Mini Mental State Examination; Persian language

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSLATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956291690     PISSN: 09084282     EISSN: 15324826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09084282.2010.499773     Document Type: Article

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