Assessment of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery test in Saudi children with learning disabilities: A case-control study
| Autor: | Nouf Al Backer, Shahid Bashir, Syed Shahid Habib, Abdulrahman Alfahadi, Koloud Ateeq Alharbi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Audiology behavioral disciplines and activities General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Cognitive impairment General Immunology and Microbiology Age differences business.industry Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery 05 social sciences Case-control study Neuropsychology Cognition General Medicine Test (assessment) Learning disability medicine.symptom business psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | F1000Research. 7:323 |
| ISSN: | 2046-1402 |
| Popis: | Background: The neuropsychological tests and its subtests are composed of the motor planning task; simple reaction time task and the intradimensional/extradimensional shift (IED) task from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) were developed to examine specific components of cognition. The main objective of this study was to examine the reliability of these CANTAB subtests in pediatric patients with learning disabilities (LD) in Saudi Arabia. Methods: We administered the CANTAB subset test to 92 participants with LD and 68 controls with no LD. The tests performed were motor planning task (MOT), simple reaction time task (SRT) and the intradimensional/extradimensional shift (IED). Results: There was no significant age difference between the case and the control group (case: 9.2 ± 2.4 years versus controls: 9.0 ± 1.6 years, p=0.544). The IED and MOT were significantly longer among patients with LD versus control (p Conclusion: Patients with LD have poor CANTAB subtest results. If these CANTAB subtests do measure cognitive function, this adds to the accumulating evidence of cognitive impairment association in LD, and such studies should remain an active area of research. |
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