G. Uyanga¹,  T. Gantsetseg²

1-National Centre of Mental Health of Mongolia

2-Mongolian National University of Medical Science

BACKGROUND

In 1992, the World Health Organization (WHO), developed a detailed set of criteria on oligophrenia diagnosis and differential diagnosis of clinically and recommends the methodology to test natural state of people’s psychology-intelligence development within the nation’s culture and living environment and to define clinical characteristics. Thus, this study has been done upon the needs to localize some questions on IQ tests in close consideration of natural state of the Mongolians’ intelligence development within the nation’s culture.

METHODS

We had totally 340 individuals, who were sent by the stationary and ambulatory of the National Center for Mental Health, the Health Care Centers of Districts, the clinics in provinces, and Child Care and Protection Center for IQ tests as recommended by psychotherapists, as a target group and analyzed their test results with the WAIS test for defining their IQ levels.

RESULTS

Totally 340 individuals of 15-58 year olds, including 178 males and 162 females were involved. According to the WAIS test, their IQ scores were between 32 and 120 with an average score:

IQ=59.6%±0.8. According to the general knowledge scale test results, all the respondents either from urban or rural areas were unable to answer two specific questions: “What is the name of the airplane inventor?” and “Who discovered the American continent?” out of the 25 questions in the test. Moreover, the 98.2% (n=334) of the respondents could also not answer the question “What is the name of the Hamlet’s author?”.There were five respondents, who were able to answer the question and four of them were from the urban area. To the question “What centimeter is equal to 10 decimeter?” the 85% (n=289) of the respondents were unable to answer and the 92.2% (n=167, р=0,001) of the respondents from rural areas provided no any answer to the question.

CONCLUSION

Test results are depending on the level of individual’s intelligence quotient (IQ). It is obvious that some respondents from rural areas more failed to answer the questions in comparing to those provided by the respondents from urban areas. It would be caused and directly dependent on availabilities of information accessing sources, educational environment and levels.

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