title: Development of the Korean version of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Packet (CERAD-K): clinical and neuropsychological assessment batteries.
abstract: A Korean version of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Packet (CERAD-K) was created. The English-American version of CERAD clinical and neuropsychological assessment batteries was translated into Korean, and the psychometrical properties of the cognitive tests in the CERAD-K were established. In the translation, including back-translation, the basic structures of all measures in the original CERAD batteries were maintained. The CERAD-K was administered in a standardized manner to 106 dementia patients (aged 70.4 +/- 8.1 years), including 78 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, and 186 controls (aged 68.4 +/- 4.6 years) who were recruited from 3 university hospitals and 2 elderly welfare centers. The cognitive tests in the CERAD-K successfully differentiated controls from the dementia patients and from the AD patients. They also showed substantial interrater reliability and 1-month test-retest reliability. The CERAD-K is an equally reliable and valid equivalent for the English version of the CERAD clinical and neuropsychological assessment batteries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kangwon National University Hospital, Chunchon, Kangwon-do, Korea.
authors.forename: Jung H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kang U
authors.initials: KU
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Dong Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Ki W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jin H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Jhoo
authors.forename: Ju H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kun H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sung Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sul H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Jong I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Woo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003469:Culture; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015588:Observer Variation; D012042:Registries; D015203:Reproducibility of Results