A cultural neuropsychological approach to harmonization of cognitive data across culturally and linguistically diverse older adult populations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe a cultural neuropsychological approach to prestatistical harmonization of cognitive data across the United States (U.S.) and Mexico with the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP).

Method

We performed a comprehensive review of the administration, scoring, and coding procedures for each cognitive test item administered across the English and Spanish versions of the HCAP in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) in the U.S. and the Ancillary Study on Cognitive Aging in Mexico (Mex-Cog). For items that were potentially equivalent across studies, we compared each cognitive test item for linguistic and cultural equivalence and classified items as confident or tentative linking items, based on the degree of confidence in their comparability across coh

SUBMITTER: Briceno EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9639608 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature