Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Arabic version of the BACS scale (the brief assessment of cognition in schizophrenia) among chronic schizophrenic inpatients

Table 5 Pearson correlations between standard battery domains and BACS measures

Standard Battery	BACS measures
Standard Battery	VM	DS	TM	VF	SC	TL	Composite BACS score
In patients with schizophrenia
Free and Cued Recall test (RL/RI-16)	.53***	.57***	.16	.57***	.40***	.43***	.54***
Digit span sequencing from the WAIS-IV	.46***	.71***	.36***	.59***	.63***	.55***	.69***
The Trail Making Test A (TMT-A)	.36***	.60***	.40***	.52***	.55***	.41***	.61***
The Controlled Oral Word Association Test; Category Instances	.59***	.65***	.35***	.80***	.50***	.45***	.70***
Digit Symbol Coding from the WAIS-IV	.47***	.55***	.42***	.50***	.81***	.42***	.70***
Block design test from the WAIS-IV	.47***	.58***	.31**	.50***	.45***	.58***	.60***
Composite standard battery score	.49***	.70***	.43***	.64***	.65***	.51***	.73***
In healthy control
Free and Cued Recall test (RL/RI-16)	.64***	.35**	.22	.53***	.54***	.26	.58***
Digit span sequencing from the WAIS-IV	.48**	.54***	.35**	.42**	.61***	.24	.60***
The Trail Making Test A (TMT-A)	.50***	.50***	.21	.50***	.58***	.58***	.60***
The Controlled Oral Word Association Test; Category Instances	.53***	.55***	.34**	.73***	.52***	.26*	.66***
Digit Symbol Coding from the WAIS-IV	.57***	.51***	.28*	.43**	.83***	.28*	.67***
Block design test from the WAIS-IV	.27	.37**	.11	.23	.38**	.34**	.34**
Composite standard battery score	.68***	.64***	.32*	.63***	.81***	.51***	.78***

Significant correlation at: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.
VM Verbal Memory; DS Digit Sequencing; TM Token Motor Task; VF Verbal Fluency; SC Symbol Coding; TL Tower of London.
The correlation in patients with schizophrenia was controlled for duration of illness, duration of hospitalization and chlorpromazine equivalent dose

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