Developing and implementing guidelines on culturally adapting the Addenbrooke's cognitive examination version III (ACE-III): a qualitative illustration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cognitive tests currently used in healthcare and research settings do not account for bias in performance that arises due to cultural context. At present there are no universally accepted steps or minimum criteria for culturally adapting cognitive tests. We propose a methodology for developing specific guidelines to culturally adapt a specific cognitive test and used this to develop guidelines for the ACE-III. We then demonstrated their implementation by using them to produce an ACE-III Urdu for a British South Asian population.

Methods

This was a several stage qualitative study. We combined information from our systematic review on the translation and cultural adaptation of the ACE-III with feedback from previous ACE-III adaptors. This identified steps for cultur

SUBMITTER: Waheed W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539399 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature