title: A brief neuropsychological battery for use in the chronic heart failure population.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cognitive impairment is a recognized consequence of heart failure; however, there are no neuropsychological batteries with documented psychometric data in the chronic heart failure population.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To document the psychometric properties of a brief neuropsychological battery in a chronic heart failure sample.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status, Trail Making Test Part A and Part B, and letter fluency was administered to a sample of individuals with chronic heart failure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eighty individuals with stable heart failure participated in this study. Individuals with chronic heart failure scored significantly lower than expected age and education adjusted norms in the domains of attention (p < 0.001), memory (p < 0.001), language (p < 0.001), executive function (p < 0.001), and psychomotor speed (p = 0.02). Scores on the tests of memory and executive function correlated to functional status (r = 0.28, p = 0.02 and r = 0.29, p = 0.03, respectively). Acceptable convergent validity and test-retest reliability were documented for this battery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The neuropsychological battery had adequate reliability and validity in individuals with chronic heart failure.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, United States. lisa.bauer@nursing.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: Bunny
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pozehl
authors.forename: Melody
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hertzog
authors.forename: Julene
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Lani
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Filipi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001288:Attention; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report / Q000592:standards