Abstract
Objective: This study examines the validity of the NAB Screening Module (screening module of the neuropsychological assessment battery, S-NAB) in an acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) inpatient population and provides psychometric evaluation of an original index sensitive to TBI impairment.
Method: The utility of the S-NAB as a TBI screen was examined using a between groups design. One-hundred and four patients with mild complicated to severe TBI were recruited from a consecutive cohort of patients admitted as inpatients to a UK Major Trauma Centre. Ninety-eight control participants were selected from the S-NAB normative sample. All TBI patients completed the S-NAB during their inpatient stay.
Results: Control participants scored significantly higher than TBI participants on the Total Screening index (t = 3.626, p < 0.01), The Attention index (t = 7.882, p < 0.01), and the Executive index (t = 5.577, p < 0.01). A briefer TBI Impairment index of six subtests was constructed which accurately discriminated TBI patients from normative controls (t = 9.9, p < 0.01; Cohen's d = 1.54). The TBI index had excellent classification accuracy (AUC = 0.83), superior to that of the standard S-NAB indices. The TBI Index, Attention Index, and Total Screening Index demonstrated increasing impairment with increased severity of injury.
Conclusions: The S-NAB TBI index is a robust, reliable screening index for use with acute TBI patients, which is sensitive to the effects of acute TBI. It affords a briefer cognitive screen than the S-NAB and demonstrates a dose response relationship to TBI severity.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 215-227 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 22 Oct 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2017 |
Keywords
- Adult
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
- Brain Injuries, Traumatic
- Cognition Disorders
- Cohort Studies
- Executive Function
- Female
- Glasgow Outcome Scale
- Humans
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Mass Screening
- Memory
- Middle Aged
- Neuropsychological Tests
- ROC Curve
- Severity of Illness Index
- Journal Article