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Tytuł:
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Cross-Cultural Comparison of Rural Healthy Adults: Russian and American Groups.
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Autorzy:
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Melikyan ZA; Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Puente AE; Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA.
Agranovich AV; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Źródło:
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Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists [Arch Clin Neuropsychol] 2021 Apr 21; Vol. 36 (3), pp. 359-370.
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Typ publikacji:
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Journal Article
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Język:
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English
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Imprint Name(s):
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Publication: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Original Publication: New York : Pergamon Press, c1986-
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MeSH Terms:
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Cross-Cultural Comparison*
Rural Population*
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Russia ; United States ; Young Adult
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Contributed Indexing:
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Keywords: Cross-cultural comparison; Cross-cultural neuropsychology; Neuropsychological tests; Neuropsychology; Rural population; Russian-American comparison
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Entry Date(s):
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Date Created: 20200117 Date Completed: 20210423 Latest Revision: 20210423
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Update Code:
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20240104
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DOI:
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10.1093/arclin/acz071
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PMID:
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31942604
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Objective: The Russian-speaking population is among the largest European-born in the U.S., yet Russian-American cross-cultural research is scarce. Two studies compared neuropsychological test performance in Russian and American urban adults. However, rural populations of the two nations have never been compared. Cross-cultural neuropsychological differences in rural populations might present differently than in urban dwellers. The present study provides a cross-sectional comparison of neuropsychological test performance in Russian and American rural adults.
Methods: Neuropsychological test performance of 51 American (67% female) and 52 Russian (60% female) healthy rural adults age 18-89 was compared using t-test with Bonferroni correction for education-adjusted z-scores for the following tests: Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT), Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT), Trail Making Test A and B (TMT A&B), Stroop Neuropsychological Screening Test, Benton Judgment of Line Orientation Test (JLO), Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R), Color Trails Test 1 and 2 (CTT 1&2), WMS-IV Logical Memory Test (LMT), WAIS-IV Digit Span Forward (DSF) and Backward Test (DSB), and Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT).
Results: Age and sex distribution did not differ in the two groups, but the Russian group was more highly educated. The American group outperformed the Russian group on TMT B, CTT 2, recognition trials of RCFT, BVMT-R, LMT, and on DSF.
Conclusions: Cultural differences in attitudes to timed activities, experience with timed tests and multiple-choice format, attention to details, and length of digit-words that put differential demand on short-term memory in Russian and in English may mediate observed between-group differences.
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