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- Title
THE FIVE DIGITS TEST ON THE ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS WITH HETEROGENEOUS EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDS: EVIDENCES OF VALIDITY ON THE ASSESSMENT OF BIPOLAR DISORDER.
- Authors
de Paula, Jonas Jardim; Abrantes, Suzana; Silva Neves, Fernando; Fernandes Malloy-Diniz, Leandro
- Abstract
Objective: to analyze the validity of the Five Digits Test (FDT), an adapted version of the Stroop Color-Word Test (SCWT) on Bipolar Disorder patients (BD). Method: we assessed 35 BD patients diagnosed in a clinical interview by a psychiatrist using the MINI-Psychiatric Interview. The participants were euthymic during the cognitive assessment. Besides the FDT, the participants performed the SCWT, the Five Points Test (FPT) and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) as measures of criterionrelated, convergent and divergent validity, respectively. We adopted partial correlations, controlling for age, education, sex and symptoms of depression and mania, to analyze the association between the FDT times and errors with the other cognitive measures. Group comparisons with a paired control sample were used to assess the FDT discriminant validity. Results: we found significant correlations between the FDT and the SCWT and between the FDT and the FPT, but not between the FDT and the RAVLT. The shared variance of the measures sustained the construct validity for the assessment of processing speed and executive functions. Group comparisons indicate large effect sizes for the FDT timed measures and errors in the executive functions components. The test accuracy for group classification was 90%. Conclusions: the results suggest that the FDT is a valid measure of processing speed and executive functions for the assessment of BD patients, and might be an alternative to the SCWT for patients with low formal education.
- Subjects
PSYCHOTHERAPY patients; EDUCATIONAL background; BIPOLAR disorder; COGNITIVE analysis; STATISTICAL correlation
- Publication
Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 2014, Vol 11, Issue 3-5, p103
- ISSN
1724-4935
- Publication type
Article