Abstract

The current study compared the assessment of memory with a translated story recall test and its original published norms and an equivalent local test with local norms. Analyses used data from 232 individuals with memory complaints who underwent neuropsychological evaluation at an outpatient memory clinic. One group of participants completed a translated test (N = 126) and another group completed a local test (N = 106). Additionally, participants completed tasks of word list recall, picture naming, and verbal fluency, all having local norms. The results showed that raw scores on the delayed story recall test, and on all other cognitive tasks, did not differ across groups, and the cross-task correlations were significant and similar in size in both groups. Yet, there was an interaction between group and standardized tests scores, whereby the standardized scores on the translated story recall test were equivalent to population mean, whereas all other scores fell below the mean. Conversion of raw scores to the original norms indicated that the performance of individuals with memory complaints was intact, while conversion of scores on a local test to local norms revealed the expected memory impairment. The findings highlight the importance of using local tests and local norms in the assessment of memory.

摘要

目前的研究将记忆评估与翻译的故事回忆测试及其原始发布的规范以及等效的本地测试与本地规范进行了比较。分析使用了 232 名在门诊记忆诊所接受神经心理学评估的记忆障碍患者的数据。一组参与者完成了翻译测试（N  = 126），另一组完成了本地测试（N = 106)。此外，参与者完成了单词列表回忆、图片命名和语言流利度的任务，所有这些任务都具有当地规范。结果表明，延迟故事回忆测试和所有其他认知任务的原始分数在各组之间没有差异，并且两组的跨任务相关性显着且大小相似。然而，小组和标准化测试分数之间存在相互作用，即翻译故事回忆测试的标准化分数等于总体平均数，而所有其他分数均低于平均数。将原始分数转换为原始标准表明有记忆问题的个人的表现完好无损，而将本地测试分数转换为本地标准则显示了预期的记忆障碍。