Bilingualism, assessment language, and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in Mexican Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

Assessment of cognition in linguistically diverse aging populations is a growing need. Bilingualism may complicate cognitive measurement precision, and bilingualism may vary across Hispanic/Latinx sub-populations. We examined the association among bilingualism, assessment language, and cognitive screening performance in a primarily non-immigrant Mexican American community.

Design

Prospective, community-based cohort study: The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC)-Cognitive study.

Setting

Nueces County, Texas.

Participants

Community-dwelling Mexican Americans age 65+, recruited door-to-door using a two-stage area probability sampling procedure.

Measurements

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA); self-reported bilingualis

SUBMITTER: Briceno EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273138 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature