ArticleDementia and geriatric cognitive disorders2015
Performance of the 16-Item Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline for the Elderly (IQCODE) in an Arabic-Speaking Older Population.
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- Cognitive assessment tools for Arabic-speaking older adults: A systematic review.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive Screening Instruments for Older Adults with Low Educational and Literacy Levels: A Systematic Review.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2022Pooled it
- Neuropsychological Measures in the Arab World: A Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2017Pooled it
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- Validity and reliability of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) for dementia assessment in rural South Africa.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Considerations for the use of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) in cross-country comparisons of cognitive aging and dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Performance of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline for the Elderly (IQCODE) in a nationally representative study in India: the LASI-DAD study.International psychogeriatrics · 2024Article
- Prevalence of DSM-5 mild and major neurocognitive disorder in India: Results from the LASI-DAD.PloS one · 2024Article
- Delirium in Medically Hospitalized Patients: Prevalence, Recognition and Risk Factors: A Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Establishing conversion of the 16-item Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly scores into interval-level data across multiple samples using Rasch methodology.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2023Article
- Validation of AD8-Philippines (AD8-P): A Brief Informant-Based Questionnaire for Dementia Screening in the Philippines.International journal of Alzheimer's disease · 2021Article
- Informant questionnaire on cognitive decline in the elderly (IQCODE) for assessing the severity of dementia in patients with Alzheimer's disease.BMC geriatrics · 2018Article
- Cognitive Reserve Factors in a Developing Country: Education and Occupational Attainment Lower the Risk of Dementia in a Sample of Lebanese Older Adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2018Review
- Dementia prevalence, care arrangement, and access to care in Lebanon: A pilot study.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2017Article
- One Size Does Not Fit All: Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy of the Rowland Universal Dementia Assessment Scale and the Mini Mental State Examination in a Memory Clinic Population with Very Low Education.Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders extraArticle
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aimThe North African and Middle Eastern region has high illiteracy rates among older people, making direct cognitive testing challenging. Validated screening instruments for dementia in Arabic are lacking. We aimed to validate the Arabic version of the 16-item Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline for the Elderly (A-IQCODE 16) for screening for dementia through an informant.
methods236 Lebanese participants older than 65 years, 143 with normal cognition and 93 with mild-to-moderate dementia according to the DSM-IV criteria, and their informants were recruited. Half of the participants had no formal education. Interviewers blinded to the cognitive status of the participants administered the A-IQCODE 16 to the informants. The ability of the A-IQCODE 16 to screen for dementia was evaluated against the DSM-IV diagnoses.
resultsThe A-IQCODE 16 had excellent overall predictive power (area under the receiver operator characteristic curve = 0.96). A cutoff point of >3.34 yielded the best sensitivity (92.5%) and specificity (94.4%) for dementia screening. At this cutoff point, the discriminatory ability of the A-IQCODE 16 was comparable between participants with and those without formal education.
conclusionThe A-IQCODE 16 is not biased by education and is therefore useful as a brief screening tool for dementia among Arabic-speaking older adults with low education.
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