Hindi Version of Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult Form (BRIEF-A)

Pages: 230-234
Sadhana Yadav1 and R. N. Singh2 (Department of Psychology, Juhari Devi Girls P. G. College, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh1 and Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh2)

There is no comprehensive tool to assess global executive function of Indian adults. However, there are numerous Indian adaptations of performance based tools of cognitive function which assess executive function as a dimension, but of course no tool is available which can measure it separately and provide a global assessment of it. The Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult version was developed originally in English language (Roth, Isquith, & Gioia, 2005). In view of the above, present study is an attempt to prepare a Hindi version of BRIEF-A, self-report. Translation and Back-translation method were used for this purpose. The sample comprised 100 participants coming both from the rural and urban areas of North India. The age range of participants was 40 to 60 years. Data analyses showed that all the items of the translated version have excellent reliability and validity.