Demographically corrected norms for the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-revised and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-revised in monolingual Spanish speakers from the US-Mexico border region
Demographically corrected norms for the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-revised and Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-revised in monolingual Spanish speakers from the US-Mexico border region
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10.1016/j.acn.2007.01.009
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
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2.6
通讯作者：
Heaton, R.
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作者：
Cherner, M.;Suarez, P.;Heaton, R.
在美国和世界上有大量主要讲西班牙语的人，因此必须提供适当的神经心理学评估工具来满足这些人群的需求。在这篇文章中，我们描述了来自美墨边境地区的西班牙语使用者在修订后的简短视觉空间记忆测试和修订后的霍普金斯语言学习测试中的规范化过程。“我们通过将这些测试的原始公布标准应用于规范样本的原始分数来计算减值率，并发现与预期率相比有很大的高估。”正如预期的那样，考虑到原始规范样本中受教育程度较低的受试者的代表性不足，这些高估在教育程度最低的人群中最为突出。结果表明，从受过广泛教育的健康西班牙语成年人中得出的人口统计学校正标准不太可能导致诊断错误。除传统的年龄调整外，有关测试的人口修正至少应包括识字或教育的影响。因为我们的样本的年龄范围是有限的，所提出的规范不应适用于老年人群。(C) 2007年国家神经心理学研究院。Elsevier Ltd.出版。版权所有。
The large number of primary Spanish speakers both in the United States and the world makes it imperative that appropriate neuropsychological assessment instruments be available to serve the needs of these populations. In this article we describe the norming process for Spanish speakers from the U.S.-Mexico border region on the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-revised and the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-revised. 'We computed the rates of impairment that would be obtained by applying the original published norms for these tests to raw scores from the normative sample, and found substantial overestimates compared to expected rates. As expected, these overestimates were most salient at the lowest levels of education, given the under-representation of poorly educated subjects in the original normative samples. Results suggest that demographically corrected norms derived from healthy Spanish-speaking adults with a broad range of education, are less likely to result in diagnostic errors. At minimum, demographic corrections for the tests in question should include the influence of literacy or education, in addition to the traditional adjustments for age. Because the age range of our sample was limited, the norms presented should not be applied to elderly populations. (C) 2007 National Academy of Neuropsychology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.