title: Validation of the Persian version of the brief assessment of cognition in schizophrenia in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) is designed for assessment of cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia. Versions of the BACS in English and other languages have been shown to be as sensitive to cognitive dysfunction as a standard test battery, with the advantage of brief administration and scoring time. The present study aimed to test the concurrent validity of the Persian version of the BACS (Persian-BACS).
  
  
  METHODS
  A group of 50 patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and a group of 50 healthy controls received the Persian-BACS in a first session, and in a second session a standard neurocognitive battery.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Cronbach's alpha for the Persian-BACS was 0.74. All the Persian-BACS subscales were significantly correlated with the corresponding standard neurocognitive subscales and the Pearson correlation of the composite scores from the two instruments was 0.71. Moreover, a one-factor solution was found that accounted for 67.9% of the variance. Finally, the Persian-BACS demonstrated high ability to discriminate patients with schizophrenia from healthy controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Good psychometric properties of the Persian-BACS suggest that it is a useful tool for assessing cognition in schizophrenic patients with Persian as their primary language.
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
authors.forename: Shahrzad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mazhari
authors.forename: Nooshin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Parvaresh
authors.forename: Mahin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eslami Shahrbabaki
authors.forename: Mohammad M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Sadeghi
authors.forename: Nouzar
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakhaee
authors.forename: Richard S E
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Keefe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D014177:Translations
keywords: Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia; Persian; cognition; schizophrenia