title: [Evaluating on recognition impairment after traumatic brain injury with WCST].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the value of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) in evaluating the recognition impairment after traumatic brain injury (TB1).
  
  
  METHODS
  WCST and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised in China (WAIS-RC) were adopted to assess the cognitive function in 186 patients with brain injury (experimental group) and 180 healthy volunteers (control group), respectively. The cognition between the experimental group and the control group was compared. The correlation between WCST and IQ was analyzed. The correlation between age, education level, the severity of TBI and the executive function were also analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  (1) The performances of WAIS-RC and WCST in the experimental group were significantly worse than that of the control group. (2) There were significantly negative correlation between the performance of total errors, percentage of preservative errors, percentage of random errors, response number on first category and IQ (P < 0.05). While there were significantly positive correlation between the categories completed, percentage of conceptual level and IQ (P < 0.05). (3) There was significantly negative correlation between percentage of conceptual level and the severity of TBI. While there were significantly positive correlation between percentage of preservative errors, percentage of random errors, response number on first category and the severity of TBI.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  WCST could be an important method in evaluating cognition of patients with brain injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Wanmanm Medical College, Wuhu 241002, China. rhhang311@yahoo.cn
authors.forename: Rong-Hua
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Hang
authors.forename: Ya-Jun
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Hai-Feng
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Xu-Yang
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D014888:Wechsler Scales; D055815:Young Adult