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Validation of cognitive functioning categories in the Canadian Community Health Survey—Healthy Aging

Publication: Health Reports 2010:21(4) www.statcan.gc.ca/healthreports

Authors: Leanne Findlay, Julie Bernier, Holly Tuokko, Susan Kirkland and Heather Gilmour

Data: 2009 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)—Healthy Aging Cognition Module

Categories of cognitive functioning can be described from the Canadian Community Health Survey—Healthy Aging Cognition Module. Four tests of cognitive functioning—immediate recall, delayed recall, animal-naming and the Mental Alternation Test—were validated based on literature-supported correlates of cognitive functioning. The fact that the strongest correlates of the cognitive functioning categories were self-rated mental health and difficulties thinking clearly and solving problems lends the greatest support to the use of the categories presented in this analysis.

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For more information about this article, contact Julie Bernier (1-613-951-4556; Julie.Bernier@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada.