Development, adaptation, and validation of a cognitive assessment battery harmonized with the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Centre's (NACC) Uniform Data Set (UDS) in Botswana

The study is the first to culturally adapt and validate cognitive assessments in Botswana. Our qualitative findings provide valuable cultural, social, and linguistic insights into considerations for test selection and adaptation procedures for ADRD studies in Africa and can be informative for other Global South settings. We will additionally report the quantitative findings including psychometric properties of the adapted battery and examination of the associations of cognitive scores with key demographic variables.