title: Do traditional executive measures tell us anything about daily-life functioning after traumatic brain injury in Spanish-speaking individuals?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationship between traditional executive function measures and everyday competence in Spanish-speaking individuals with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty-two TBI patients (24 men, eight women) with an age range of 17-59 years (mean age = 30.73 years; SD = 13.34) were administered a battery of performance-based executive function measures. Such measures included the Trail Making Test part B, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Colour Word Interference Test, Controlled Oral Word Association Test and Letter-Number Sequencing. Behavioural manifestations of executive deficits were assessed by the Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult version (BRIEF-A). Patient's everyday functioning was examined with the Patient Competency Rating Scale (PCRS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Traditional performance-based executive measures correlated significantly, although moderately, with the PCRS; this relationship was more significant in the Controlled Oral Word Association Test and Trail Making Test part B. A significant correlation was obtained between the BRIEF-A clinical scales and patient's everyday competence as measured by the PCRS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The current findings suggest that traditional performance-based executive measures reveal some degree of ecological validity or real-world relevance, providing relevant information for predicting everyday competence after moderate-to-severe TBI.
authors.affiliation: Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació Guttmann-UAB, Badalona, Spain. agarciam@guttmann.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Molina
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Tormos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bernabeu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Junqué
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Roig-Rovira
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D032882:Comprehension; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult