| Objective: To test the reliability of aphasia battery of Uighur (ABU). Method: The Aphasia Battery of Chinese was translated into Uighur, and appropriate changes were made in some aspects (such as repeat, word recognition of listening and writing) according to the language characteristics of Uyghur, but the overall structure had no significant change. Three rounds of comments and revisions were carried out by experts′ evaluation method of ABU, including the language adjustment, the pre-test and Uighur-Chinese translation. Then ABU was applied to the detection of language function of 134 cases of Uighur stroke aphasia and 104 cases of normal Uighurs. Language function assessment was conducted by a trained therapist of rehabilitation medicine in Uighur language when patients were admitted to hospital. The language features of 30 patients were assessed again after a week. The other 35 patients were assessed respectively by this therapist and a trained Uighur neurology master graduate student, and the time interval of two evaluations was not more than two days. Data were analyzed by the method of Spearman rank correlation analysis, and Cronbach alpha coefficient to inspect the retest reliability, reliability, internal consistency reliability and semi-reliability. Results: For retest reliability, except that the correlation coefficient for the two items of writing was lower than 0.7, the correlation coefficient for the rest 22 items was greater than 0.8. Consistency reliability test results showed that the consistent correlation coefficient of 24 disciplines was greater than 0.7. For internal reliability, Cronbach α for oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing was 0.969, 0.922, 0.966, 0.924 respectively, with the total Cronbach α coefficient being 0.978. The split half reliability of Uighur version of aphasia testing scale was 0.906. Conclusions: This study suggests that ABU has good reliability. ABU can be applied to the diagnosis and classification of uygur patients with language aphasia, and can quantitatively reflect the functional status and language change. ABU is suitable for application in clinical rehabilitation. |
