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Cognitive assessment among foreign patients is a growing need for several
reasons: foreign patients have a different culture, they have an insufficient
command of the language of the consulting center, and the available cognitive
tools are largely unsuitable. For these reasons, we developed a non-verbal test
of long-term memory called the Brumory test. This test is based on incident
encoding of 48 colored images followed by retrieval by recognition. We compared
the performance of indigenous participants with that of immigrant participants
(mainly from Morocco). Immigrant participants did not speak French properly and
had a low educational level.
The results indicate no significant difference in
memory performance between the two groups of participants. Moreover, the
instructions were easily understood by immigrant participants, despite the fact
they do not master French.
We conclude that the Brumory test is an appropriate
test to assess memory among foreign non-French-speaking patients people with low
educational level.
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