Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS): Italian adaptation, psychometrics and diagnostics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telephone-based cognitive screening (TBCS) is crucial to telehealth care of neurological patients, prevention campaigns, and epidemiological studies on cognitive impairment. The Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS) is one of the most widespread and psychometrically/diagnostically sound TBCS test, with several versions developed worldwide (e.g., with and without a delayed recall item). In Italy, only attempts of adaptation and preliminary evidence of its statistical features have been provided so far. This study thus aimed at (1) developing an Italian version of the TICS and assessing its (2) psychometric and (3) diagnostic properties.

Methods

A back-translated and culturally adapted version of the TICS was developed. Three-hundred and sixty-five healthy

SUBMITTER: Aiello EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8600494 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature