Cognitive and psychological predictors of everyday memory in children with intractable epilepsy

Rehabilitation of everyday memory deficits in paediatric brain injury: Self-instruction and diary training

“…Only children who displayed difficulties in everyday memory with scores within or below the low average range (, -0.6z; Lezak, Howieson, Loring, & Hannay, 2004) (Kadis et al, 2004;Vriezen & Smith, 1996) were included in the study. Additional inclusion criteria were: (1) no history of major pre-existing psychiatric or neurological illness (i.e., autism, epilepsy, cerebral palsy); (2) Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient (FSIQ) .79 on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children -Fourth Edition (WISC-IV; Wechsler, 2003) or Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI; Wechsler, 1999); (3) fluent in the English language; and (4) reading skills ≥ Year 3, as measured on the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test -Second Edition (WIAT-II; Wechsler, 2002), so children could read diary entries.…”

“…In the only study that examined the relationship between memory complaints and performance on neuropsychological tests in children, Kadis, Stollstorff, Elliot, Lach, and Smith (2004) found that parental reports of attentional deficits, but not scores obtained on a number of other standardised cognitive or behavioural measures, accounted for a significant proportion of variance in everyday memory in patients with intractable epilepsy. These findings, however, cannot be automatically generalised to children with ABI, as the two disorders impact children's brain and cognitive development in different ways.…”

“…While the core memory formation processes are measured by standardised neuropsychological tests, the testing is usually conducted in a highly structured, controlled environment with minimal distracters (Kadis et al, 2004). In contrast, at school and at home, children are in situations when competing stimuli are present simultaneously.…”

Kognitive Probleme bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

“…B. mit der Stimmungslage [6] oder mit assoziierten kognitiven Funktionen. Kadis et al [14] konnten beispielsweise zeigen, dass im Alltag beobachtete Gedächt-nisprobleme bei Kindern mit Epilepsie stärker mit den von den Eltern berichteten Aufmerksamkeitsproblemen zusammenhängen als mit den Leistungen in Gedächtnistests. Andererseits wurden bei Studien mit anderen pädiatrischen Untersuchungsgruppen durchaus hohe Korrelationen zwischen der Elterneinschät-zung und der Testuntersuchung festgestellt [5,20].…”

The Observer Memory Questionnaire—Parent Form: Introducing a new measure of everyday memory for children

“…They found the EMQ had sound psychometric properties in healthy children and was moderately correlated with some objective memory tasks. Kadis et al (2004) and Drysdale et al (2004) explored everyday memory in a clinical group. Although Kadis and colleagues found their adapted version of the Memory Observation Questionnaire (MOQ, McGlone & Wands, 1991) was predicted by parent ratings of attention, but not mood or objective test performance, in a mixed epilepsy cohort, these data are difficult to interpret in the absence of psychometric data on the MOQ.…”