"People like numbers": A descriptive study of cognitive assessment methods in clinical practice for Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dingwall, Kylie M ^a   Pinkerton, Jennifer ^a   Lindeman, Melissa A ^b  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Assessment; Cognition; Cross cultural; Indigenous; Testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STANDARDIZATION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84873048863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-42     Document Type: Article

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