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The Escape Narratives Request Form
The Escape narratives are brief story-recall narratives designed for use in narrative recall cognitive assessment. Participants are visually shown and verbally read the narrative. They are then asked to provide an immediate free-recall response, and after a 15-20 minute delay, a delayed free-recall response. Recall is scored against a structured rubric of story categories and events. Manual scoring is aided by a reduced 18-item rubric, which scores only content units shown to be most useful at identifying early-stage impairment.
These materials are intended for research and clinical assessment of memory and narrative recall. They are not a diagnostic instrument on their own and should be interpreted alongside other clinical information.
Visit our GitHub repository for more information on the license, and to view the narrative and scoring criteria. If you wish to use this tool, fill out the below form to request your license.
Please complete this form to request license
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The instruments (tools) offered by CCBH are copyrighted by Michael J Kleiman, PhD and the University of Miami and are solely for clinical care purposes, personal ratings, or non-commercial research. Any commercial use requires a licensing agreement. Any use, reproduction, publication, and/or distribution of these instruments for any other reason or purpose, including without limitation (a) the sale, distribution, publication, or transfer for any consideration or commercial value, (b) the creation of any derivative works, including translations thereof, (c) the use as a marketing tool for the promotion or sale of any drug, device or intervention, (d) incorporation in an electronic medical record application software, and/or (e) any use in connection with research or clinical trials that are supported, in whole or in part, by any for-profit entity with the express written consent of the University of Miami is strictly prohibited.