Test Your Memory-Spanish version (TYM-S): a validation study of a self-administered cognitive screening test

• Published in: International journal of geriatric psychiatry Vol. 29; no. 7; pp. 730 - 740
• Main Authors: Muñoz-Neira, Carlos, Henríquez Chaparro, Fernando, Delgado, Carolina, Brown, Jerry, Slachevsky, Andrea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hove Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2014; Psychology Press; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alzheimer's disease; Biological and medical sciences; Case-Control Studies; Cognition & reasoning; Cognition Disorders - diagnosis; Cognition Disorders - physiopathology; Dementia; Dementia - diagnosis; Dementia - physiopathology; Executive Function - physiology; Female; General aspects; Geriatric psychiatry; Geriatrics; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Memory; mild cognitive impairment; Neuropsychological Tests - standards; Older people; Prevention and actions; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Quantitative psychology; Reproducibility of Results; self-administered cognitive screening test; Sensitivity and Specificity; Severity of Illness Index; Test Your Memory-Spanish version; TYM; Chile; Cognitive disorder; Alzheimer disease; Memory; Cognition; Self administration; Screening test; Test Your Memory—Spanish version; Degenerative disease; Spanish; Alzheimer's disease; Human; self-administered cognitive screening test; Nervous system diseases; Foreign language version; TYM; Medical screening; Cerebral disorder; Test validation; Gerontology; Central nervous system disease; dementia; mild cognitive impairment; Elderly; Psychiatry; Geriatrics; Test Your Memory-Spanish version

ObjectivesTo develop the Test Your Memory (TYM)—Spanish version (TYM‐S), a self‐administered cognitive screening test, in a Chilean older sample and to estimate its psychometric properties and diagnostic accuracy. MethodsThe TYM was translated into Spanish and adapted for a Chilean population to dev...