Adaptation of Protocole MEC de Poche and of the Extended MAC Battery: Brief MAC Battery

Authors

  • Fabíola Schwengber Casarin Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Lilian Cristine Scherer Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Perrine Ferré Hôpital de Réadaptation Villa Medica
  • Bernadette Ska Centro de Pesquisa do Instituto Universitário de Geriatria de Montreal
  • Maria Alice Pimenta de Mattos Parente Universidade Federal do ABC
  • Yves Joanette Faculty of Medicine Université de Montréal
  • Rochele Paz Fonseca Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

Neuropsychological assessment, adaptation, language, right hemisphere, brief assessment.

Abstract

This study presents the theoretical and empirical procedures involved in the process of adaptating the extended version of the MAC Battery and of Protocole MEC de Poche to a brief Brazilian version - Brief MAC Battery. The sample was comprised of four translators, 308 non-expert judges, 14 expert judges and 36 healthy adults. Six phases were conducted: (1) comparison between expanded MAC Battery and MEC de Poche, (2) translation, (3) development of new stimuli, (4) psycholinguistic analysis by non-experts and (5) by experts and (6) pilot studies. The adapted version appeared valid to assess communication processes such as discursive, inferential-pragmatic, lexical-semantic and prosodic, and was able to contribute to the functional diagnosis of patients with cerebrovascular disease, brain injury, dementia and schizophrenia.

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Published

2013-07-19

How to Cite

Casarin, F. S., Scherer, L. C., Ferré, P., Ska, B., Parente, M. A. P. de M., Joanette, Y., & Fonseca, R. P. (2013). Adaptation of Protocole MEC de Poche and of the Extended MAC Battery: Brief MAC Battery. Psico, 44(2). Retrieved from https://pucrs.emnuvens.com.br/revistapsico/article/view/12379

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Articles