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Spanish Validation Of the Brief Assessment in Cognition in Schizophrenia (Bacs) in Patients With Schizophrenia and Healthy Controls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

N. Segarra ,
M. Bernardo ,
F. Gutierrez ,
A. Justicia ,
E. Fernadez-Egea ,
M. Allas ,
G. Safont ,
F. Contreras ,
J. Gascon  and
P.A. Soler-Insa
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N. Segarra
Affiliation:
Schizophrenia Clinic Program, Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic de, Barcelona, Spain Institute of Biomedical Research Agusti Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Health Sciences Division, University of Barcelona, Spain
M. Bernardo*
Affiliation:
Schizophrenia Clinic Program, Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic de, Barcelona, Spain Institute of Biomedical Research Agusti Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Health Sciences Division, University of Barcelona, Spain
F. Gutierrez
Affiliation:
Institute of Biomedical Research Agusti Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain Psychology Department, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic deBarcelona, Spain
A. Justicia
Affiliation:
Schizophrenia Clinic Program, Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic de, Barcelona, Spain Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
E. Fernadez-Egea
Affiliation:
Schizophrenia Clinic Program, Department of Psychiatry, Neuroscience Institute, Hospital Clinic de, Barcelona, Spain Institute of Biomedical Research Agusti Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Spain
M. Allas
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Universitary de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
G. Safont
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Mutua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
F. Contreras
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Universitary de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
J. Gascon
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Mutua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
P.A. Soler-Insa
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Mutua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
J.M. Menchon
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Unit. Hospital Universitary de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
C. Junque
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Health Sciences Division, University of Barcelona, Spain
R.S.E. Keefe
Affiliation:
Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
*
⁎Corresponding author. Miguel Bernardo. E-mail address:bernardo@clinic.ub.es(M. Bernardo).
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Abstract

Neurocognitive impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia and is closely associated with functional outcome. The importance of cognitive assessment is broadly accepted today, and an easy-to-use, internationality validated cognitive assessment tool is needed by researchers and in daily clinical practice. The Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia (BACS) has been validated in English, French, Japanese and Italian. It is as sensitive to cognitive dysfunction as a standard test battery, with the advantage of requiring less than 35 minutes to complete. In our study, we tested the psychometric characteristics of a Spanish version of the BACS in 117 patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and 36 healthy controls. All BACS cognitive subtests discriminated between patients and controls (P < .001), and the concurrent validity between the BACS and a traditional neuropsychological test battery was similar to that reported in other languages. We conclude that the BACS can facilitate the comparison of the cognitive performance of patients with schizophrenia in many different countries.

Keywords

SpanishValidationCognitionSchizophreniaBrief assessment
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Original article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , March 2011 , pp. 69 - 73
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Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2010

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