Background:
Cognitive complaints and lack of cognitive insight are not specific to schizophrenia. It could be depression, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer or addiction. Hence, scales in this field can be very useful to assess and collect data for populations at risk of developing cognitive decline.

Objectives:
To develop and validate the Subjective Scale to Investigate Cognition-Emirates (SSTIC-E) adopted from The subjective Scale To Investigate Cognition In Schizophrenia (SSTICS).

Methods:
This study is a cross-sectional validation study design. At the start, we did the cross-translation process starting with translation and back-translation. Following that we tested the Arabic version of the scale (SSTIC-E) on 13 subjects, to insure whether there are semantic or cultural aspects that need to be taken into consideration. Finally, we had to assess the validity of the scale on clinical and non-clinical subjects, to do that we enrolled the eligible subjects, obtain their consent, and asked them to do the STIC-E, MoCA, and the sociodemographic questionnaire all in the Arabic language.

Results:
Based on our preliminary findings, 210 participants of whom 126 were clinical subjects and 84 were non-clinical subjects were recruited; 123 of them were women and 87 were men. Our samples include 81 non-Emirati participants, 36 of whom were patients, and 129 Emirati individuals, of which 90 were patients. Patients average SSTIC-E scores were 44.06 (SD= 15.19), higher than the control groups score of 22.55 (SD=12.04). The average MoCA score for the patient group was 22.71 (SD=4.59), which is considered outside of the normal range, while the average score for the control group was normal at 27.19 (SD=2.24).

Conclusion:
It’s essential for any community to provide a culturally adapted and validated psychometric instrument, that will fit their needs in all cultural aspects.