Preliminary Investigation of Sex Differences in Procedural Skill Learning in Veterans with Co-Morbidities
| Autor: | Dana Waltzman, Jyoti Bhat, Michelle Madore, Timothy C. Durazzo, Margaret Windy McNerney, Jerome A. Yesavage, Ansgar J. Furst, Maheen M. Adamson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Rehabilitation
Activities of daily living Large effect size medicine.medical_treatment education 05 social sciences 050105 experimental psychology Procedural memory Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Posttraumatic stress 0302 clinical medicine Procedural skill medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Co morbidity Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Depression (differential diagnoses) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science. :325-337 |
| ISSN: | 2160-5874 2160-5866 |
| DOI: | 10.4236/jbbs.2017.78024 |
| Popis: | Sex differences in procedural skill learning have not been well characterized. Skill learning is an important area to explore in clinical settings that involve rehabilitation and deficit remediation, especially for returning Veterans that have a range of co-morbid conditions (traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression) and possess impairments in multiple domains. Sixty-five (55 males, 10 females) Veterans completed two procedural learning tasks and answered self-report questionnaires. Participants’ performance and total learning slope were analyzed to determine sex differences in learning. Our results revealed sex differences in both tasks demonstrating females tend to perform better than males with a large effect size for these mean differences. While females performed better on the procedural learning tasks compared to males, their rate of learning was equivalent. Skill learning is an important requisite for rehabilitation, as skill learning is necessary to perform daily activities in new settings. Ultimately, these results provide insight into skill learning in Veterans with a range of co-morbid conditions and provide support for further investigation of sex differences in procedural learning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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