The Self-Assessment Scale of Cognitive Complaints in Schizophrenia: A validation study in Tunisian population | BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Research article The Self-Assessment Scale of Cognitive Complaints in Schizophrenia A validation study in Tunisian population Ines Johnson Oussama Kebir Olfa Ben Azouz Lamia Dellagi Yasmine Rabah and Karim Tabbane Open Access Address Research Unit Cognitive dysfunctions in psychiatric diseases Department of psychiatry B Razi Hospital. 24 rue des orangers. La Manouba Tunisia Email Ines Johnson - Oussama Kebir - kebir_oussama@ Olfa Ben Azouz - Lamia Dellagi - dellagilamia@ Yasmine Rabah - yasmine_rabah@ Karim Tabbane - k_tabbane@ Corresponding author Published 8 October 2009 Received 22 April 2009 BMC Psychiatry 2009 9 66 doi 1471-244X-9-66 Accepted 8 October 2009 This article is available from http 1471-244X 9 66 2009 Johnson et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Despite a huge well-documented literature on cognitive deficits in schizophrenia little is known about the own perception of patients regarding their cognitive functioning. The purpose of our study was to create a scale to collect subjective cognitive complaints of patients suffering from schizophrenia with Tunisian Arabic dialect as mother tongue and to proceed to a validation study of this scale. Methods The authors constructed the Self-Assessment Scale of Cognitive Complaints in Schizophrenia SASCCS based on a questionnaire covering five cognitive domains which are the most frequently reported in the literature to be impaired in schizophrenia. The scale consisted of 21 likert-type questions dealing with memory attention executive functions language and praxia. In a second time the authors .
