title: Describing the attention profile of children and adolescents with acquired brain injury using the Virtual Classroom.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objectives of the study were: (1) to describe the attention deficits profile of children with significant acquired brain injury (ABI) in comparison to matched controls, using the virtual classroom (VC); (2) to assess the utility of the VC in detecting attention deficits in children with ABI, as compared to classical neuropsychological tests and questionnaire-based assessment of attention; and (3) to determine how performance in the VC is affected by demographic and injury severity variables.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-one children with ABI and 35 age- and gender-matched controls, aged 8-16, were assessed with the VC. The results of the VC were compared to sub-tests of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), the Conners' Parent Rating Scales-Revised: Short (CPRS-R:S) questionnaire and analysed according to demographic and injury severity variables.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significant differences were found between the groups regarding the number of targets correctly identified in the VC. Significant inter-correlations were obtained between the VC variables. Significant correlations were found between the VC variables, the sub-tests of TEA-Ch and the CPRS-R:S and the demographic characteristics of the sample.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The VC appears to be a sensitive and ecologically valid assessment tool for use in the diagnosis of attention deficits among children with ABI.
authors.affiliation: a School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jerusalem , Israel .|b Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale (LIB) , Paris , France .
authors.forename: Yafit
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gilboa
authors.affiliation: c Outreach Team for Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France .
authors.forename: Bernadette
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kerrouche
authors.affiliation: d Pediatric Oncology Department , Gustave Roussy , Villejuif , France , and.
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Longaud-Vales
authors.affiliation: d Pediatric Oncology Department , Gustave Roussy , Villejuif , France , and.
authors.forename: Virginie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kieffer
authors.affiliation: c Outreach Team for Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France .
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tiberghien
authors.affiliation: c Outreach Team for Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France .
authors.forename: Delphine
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Aligon
authors.affiliation: e Rehabilitation Department for Children with Acquired Neurological Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France.
authors.forename: Aude
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mariller
authors.affiliation: e Rehabilitation Department for Children with Acquired Neurological Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France.
authors.forename: Amaia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mintegui
authors.affiliation: c Outreach Team for Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France .
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Canizares
authors.affiliation: e Rehabilitation Department for Children with Acquired Neurological Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France.
authors.forename: Geneviève
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Abada
authors.affiliation: b Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale (LIB) , Paris , France .|e Rehabilitation Department for Children with Acquired Neurological Injury, Saint Maurice Hospitals , Saint Maurice , France.
authors.forename: Mathilde
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paule Chevignard
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010290:Parents; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Attention deficits; brain tumour; ecological assessment; traumatic brain injury; virtual reality