Ecological validity of the five digit test and the oral trails test

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Gabrielle Chequer De Castro Paiva¹  Mariana Braga Fialho¹  Danielle De Souza Costa¹  Jonas Jardim De Paula¹ 

关键词: neuropsychology;    attention;    psychometrics;    cognition;    stroop test;    neuropsicologia;    atenção;    psicometria;    cognição;    teste de stroop;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0004-282X20150184

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT Tests evaluating the attentional-executive system are widely used in clinical practice. However, proximity of an objective cognitive test with real-world situations (ecological validity) is not frequently investigated. The present study evaluate the association between measures of the Five Digit Test (FDT) and the Oral Trails Test (OTT) with self-reported cognitive failures in everyday life as measured by the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ). Brazilian adults from 18-to-65 years old voluntarily performed the FDT and OTT tests and reported the frequency of cognitive failures in their everyday life through the CFQ. After controlling for the age effect, the measures of controlled attentional processes were associated with cognitive failures, yet the cognitive flexibility of both FDT and OTT accounted for by the majority of variance in most aspects of the CFQ factors. The FDT and the OTT measures were predictive of real-world problems such as cognitive failures in everyday activities/situations.

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