title: Descriptive analysis of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children in a Spanish Normative Sample.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch) has been validated in different countries demonstrating that it is an instrument with a correct balance between reliability and duration. Given the shortage of trustworthy instruments of evaluation in our language for infantile population we decide to explore the Spanish version of the TEA-Ch.
  
  
  METHODS
  We administered TEA-Ch (version A) to a sample control of 133 Spanish children from 6 to 11 years enrolled in school in the Community of Madrid. Four children were selected at random by course of Primary Education, distributing the sex of equivalent form. Descriptive analysis and comparison by ages and sex in each of the TEA-Ch&#180;s subtests were conducted to establish a profile of the sample. In order to analyze the effect of the age, subjects were grouped in six sub-samples: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 years-old.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This first descriptive analysis demonstrates age exerted a significant effect on each measure, due to an important &#8220;jump&#8221; in children&#180;s performance between 6 and 7 years-old. The effect of sex was significant only in two visual attention measures (Sky Search & Map) and interaction age and sex exerted a significant effect only in the dual task (Score DT).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results suggest that the Spanish version of the TEA-Ch (A) might be a useful instrument to evaluate attentional processes in Spanish child population.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Neuropsicología Alexandra Pardos, Madrid.
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pardos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Servicio de Psiquiatría, Hospital Infanta Leonor, Madrid.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Quintero
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
authors.forename: Pilar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zuluaga
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Laboratorio UPM-UCM de Neurociencia Cognitiva y Computacional, Madrid.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernández
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013030:Spain