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Spanish validation of the Brief Assessment in Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls |
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| Authors: | N. Segarra M. Bernardo F. Gutierrez A. Justicia E. Fernadez-Egea M. AllasG. Safont F. ContrerasJ. Gascon P.A. Soler-InsaJ.M. Menchon C. JunqueR.S.E. Keefe |
| Affiliation: | a Schizophrenia Clinic Program, Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic de, Barcelona, Spain b Institute of Biomedical Research Agusti Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain c Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain d Psychology Department, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain e Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Health Sciences Division, University of Barcelona, Spain f Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Universitary de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain g Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Mutua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain h Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA |
| Abstract: | Neurocognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia and is closely associated with functional outcome. The importance of cognitive assessment is broadly accepted today, and an easy-to-use, internationality validated cognitive assessment tool is needed by researchers and in daily clinical practice. The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) has been validated in English, French, Japanese and Italian. It is as sensitive to cognitive dysfunction as a standard test battery, with the advantage of requiring less than 35 minutes to complete. In our study, we tested the psychometric characteristics of a Spanish version of the BACS in 117 patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and 36 healthy controls. All BACS cognitive subtests discriminated between patients and controls (P < .001), and the concurrent validity between the BACS and a traditional neuropsychological test battery was similar to that reported in other languages. We conclude that the BACS can facilitate the comparison of the cognitive performance of patients with schizophrenia in many different countries. |
| Keywords: | Spanish Validation Cognition Schizophrenia Brief assessment |
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