Standardization of Self Rating Prospective & RetrospectiveMemory Questionnaire (Tamil Version) in Chennai Population

The purpose of this study was to develop Tamil version of the self-rating Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ) in Chennai population.

The original version of self-rating Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire which has 16 standardized components (Smith.G.et.al. 2000) was translated in Tamil. It was administered to a sample of the general adult population (N = 552) with equal number of participants (276) in either of the gender and across the three age groups (17–45, 46–65 and above 66).

Internal consistency was assessed with Cronbach's alpha. The reliabilities (internal consistency) of the Total scale (0.92), prospective scale (0.88) and retrospective scale (0.88) were acceptable. One way ANOVA, Independent't’ test, were used to analyze the influence of age and gender on PRMQ scores (p < 0.05). Though statistically significant difference was found in age and gender, the effect size as measured by Cohen's ’d’ is small in magnitude (d = 0.2, r = 0.1). Therefore the normative data was simplified.

The Tamil version of self-rating PRMQ has been found to be high reliability. It provides a useful measure of everyday memory for use in clinical research and practice.