Best Practices and Methodological Strategies for Addressing Generalizability in Neuropsychological Assessment.

Autor: Malik HB; Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5612 USA., Norman JB; Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5612 USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of pediatric neuropsychology [J Pediatr Neuropsychol] 2023; Vol. 9 (2), pp. 47-63. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 13.
DOI: 10.1007/s40817-023-00145-5
Abstrakt: Generalizability considerations are widely discussed and a core foundation for understanding when and why treatment effects will replicate across sample demographics. However, guidelines on assessing and reporting generalizability-related factors differ across fields and are inconsistently applied. This paper synthesizes obstacles and best practices to apply recent work on measurement and sample diversity. We present a brief history of how knowledge in psychology has been constructed, with implications for who has been historically prioritized in research. We then review how generalizability remains a contemporary threat to neuropsychological assessment and outline best practices for researchers and clinical neuropsychologists. In doing so, we provide concrete tools to evaluate whether a given assessment is generalizable across populations and assist researchers in effectively testing and reporting treatment differences across sample demographics.
Competing Interests: Competing InterestsThe authors declare no competing interests.
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