Open AccessConstruction and Standardization of Dementia Arabic Scale
Author(s) -
Wafaa Ma Farghaly,
Hamdy N. El Tallawy,
Heba Mohamed,
Sara H El Tallawy,
Mohammed Abdelhameed
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s291392
Subject(s) - dementia , cronbach's alpha , medicine , scale (ratio) , receiver operating characteristic , neurocognitive , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , population , psychiatry , clinical psychology , gerontology , statistics , cognition , psychometrics , environmental health , mathematics , cartography , disease , geography
Validated diagnostic scales for dementia in Arabic are still scarce. The aim of this study is to construct a standardized dementia scale for dementia diagnosis among the Arabic-speaking population.