Performance of Children and Adolescents With Brain Injury on the Lebby-Asbell Neurocognitive Screening Examination for Children and Adolescents.
Traumatic brain injuries are one of the leading causes of deaths and disabilities in children and adolescents. There is a need for clinicians to quickly screen for disrupted cognitive functioning to appropriately refer to specialists. The Lebby-Asbell Neurocognitive Screening Examination for Children and Lebby-Asbell Neurocognitive Screening Examination for Adolescents were developed to fill a gap in available measures and create a screening tool to quickly identify impaired neurocognitive functioning. A series of statistical analyses were conducted to determine their clinical utility. A multivariate analysis of variance found a statistically significant difference between those with brain injury (n = 59) from noninjured (n = 190) on the combined dependent variables, F(14, 234) = 46.530, P < .001; Wilks Lambda = .264; partial η(2) = .763. The Lebby-Asbell Neurocognitive Screening Examinations for Children and Adolescents are effective neurocognitive screening measures for children and adolescents in identifying brain injury.
California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Fresno, CA, USA Children's Hospital Central California, Madera, CA, USA.
Paul C
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Lebby
California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Fresno, CA, USA mpollock@alliant.edu.
Megan
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Pollock
California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Fresno, CA, USA.
Amy
A
Mouanoutoua
California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Fresno, CA, USA.
Jennifer H
JH
Lewey
D000293:Adolescent; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
adolescents; children; neurocognitive screening measure; pediatric cognitive screen; traumatic brain injury