Test your memory test, Arabic version: Is it practical in a different culture?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 596-597

  Abd Al Atty, Muhammad F ^a   Abou Hashem, Rania M ^a   Abd Elaziz, Khaled M ^a   Abd El Gawad, Wafaa M ^a   El Gazzar, Yumna A ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARAB; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TEST YOUR MEMORY TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84858310821     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03858.x     Document Type: Letter

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