In the course of the preparatory work for the WHO cross-cultural study on the neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV-I infection, two new neuropsychological tests (the WHO/UCLA Auditory Verbal Learning Test and the Color Trails 1 & 2) were developed. The evaluation of these tests was performed at four sites, two in developed and two in developing countries. The data obtained suggest that the tests are more culture fair than others currently used to assess the same functional domains, that they are sensitive to HIV-1-associated cognitive impairment, and that this sensitivity "holds" across different cultures.

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Five new scales for the Devereux Adolescent Behavior Rating Scale (DAB), measuring acting out behaviors, withdrawn/timid behaviors, psychotic behaviors, neurotic/dependent behaviors, and heterosexual interests, were developed using item-level factor analyses. These new scales were developed after two of the four higher order scales previously developed in a substance-abuse sample were not replicated in a psychiatric-inpatient and day-treatment sample. Internal consistency analyses indicated that the five new scales reliably assess behavior in a sample with diverse problems. The new scales were found to be substantially concordant with narrowband and broadband dimensions of adolescent psychopathology identified in previous studies.