Expand the use of SATURN – a public domain self-administered cognitive screening test – in medically-underserved populations by validation of a Vietnamese-language version.

Dementia is underdiagnosed, especially in medically underserved populations. With the advent of new FDA-approved medications for Alzheimer’s dementia, improved screening for cognitive impairment across race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and linguistically diverse groups is necessary for equitable care. The English-language version of Self-Administered Tasks Uncovering Risk of Neurodegeneration (SATURN) was developed and validated as an inexpensive, freely available, and fully self-administered cognitive screening test. Because it is self-administered, versions in other languages might be rapidly deployed. We hypothesized that a Vietnamese-language version of SATURN would be strongly correlated with paper-and-pencil test results.