Development of The Multicultural Neuropsychological Scale (MUNS): A New Tool for Neuropsychological Assessment of Culturally Diverse Populations
| Autor: | Valentina Seita, Gabriel Jauregui Arriondo, Maximiliano Folmer, Gabriel Ciarímboli, Alberto Fernández, Candelaria Aimar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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050103 clinical psychology
Future studies medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Neuropsychology Constructional Praxis Cognition 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Multiculturalism Cultural diversity Scale (social sciences) Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Neuropsychological assessment business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The International Annals of Medicine. 2 |
| ISSN: | 2520-5110 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to describe the development of the Multi-cultural Neuropsychological Scale (MUNS). METHODS: This is a short scale devised with universal stimuli which are easy to translate into different languages. It consists of 7 subtests evaluating five cognitive domains: attention, memory, executive functioning, constructional praxis and language and was applied to 72 adults of both sexes in an educational range between 1 and 20 years of education. RESULTS: Age correlated with memory subtests (range= -.28 to -.32); and education was correlated with memory (range= .37 to .49), constructional praxis (.44), language (.59) and attention (.25). There were no significant differences between males and females. CONCLUSIONS: The MUNS appears as a short, portable, and user-friendly tool to assess neuropsychological functioning in adults with low and high education. Future studies remain to be conducted in order to demonstrate its cross-cultural validity. |
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