Strengths and limitations of the Short Category Test in neuropsychological examination following acute traumatic brain injury.
This study evaluated the strengths and limitations of the Short Category Test, Booklet Format, (SCT) in neuropsychological examination following acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) Participants included 30 TBI patients and 30 neurologically normal controls ranging in age from 19-43 years Each subject was matched according to age, race, and education SCT performance in TBI patients and controls was compared, SCT performance was also related to two indices of injury severity (TBI group only), and the two subtests of the Shipley Institute of Living Scale (SILS) TBI subjects performed more poorly than controls on the SCT (p<0 05) and evidenced a significant relationship between SCT and SILS Abstraction (but not vocabulary) scores The SCT was related to both SILS Abstraction and Vocabulary scores in controls SCT performance was not related to either index of injury severity in the TBI group The cutoff scores suggested by Wetzel and Boll (1987) were less sensitive than previously reported Implications of SCT use in TBI are discussed.
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Duke University Medical Center, Duke South-Clinics, Neuropsychology Lab, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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