OBJECTIVE: In answer to the call for improved accessibility of neuropsychological services to the international community, the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS; MS) was validated in multiple, non-English-speaking countries. It was created to monitor processing speed and learning in MS patients, including abbreviated versions of the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, California Verbal Learning Test, 2nd Edition, and the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test, Revised. The objective of the present study was to examine whether participant nationality impacts performance above and beyond common demographic correlates. METHOD: We combined published data-sets from Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Iran, and the U.S.A. resulting in a database of 1,097 healthy adults, before examining the data via multiple regression. RESULTS: Nationality significantly predicted performance on all three BICAMS tests after controlling for age and years of education. Interactions among the core predictor variables were non-significant. CONCLUSION: We demonstrated that nationality significantly influences BICAMS performance and established the importance of the inclusion of a nationality variable when international norms for the BICAMS are constructed.

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• databáze faktografické MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• etnicita * MeSH
• kognitivní poruchy diagnóza   etnologie   MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• multivariační analýza MeSH
• referenční hodnoty MeSH
• retrospektivní studie MeSH
• roztroušená skleróza etnologie   psychologie   MeSH
• testy pro posouzení mentálních funkcí a demence * MeSH
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• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• validační studie MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Argentina MeSH
• Brazílie MeSH
• Česká republika MeSH
• Írán MeSH
• Spojené státy americké MeSH