Cognitive process scores associated with self-reported behavioral dysfunction on the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe) in chronic traumatic brain injury

Smith, Emily E.; Smith, Jason A.D.; Juengst, Shannon B.

doi:10.1080/13803395.2019.1676882

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“…To determine the clinical significance of apathy, a t score is calculated for all apathy items, adjusted for age, sex and education. The FrSBe-A is a reliable apathy measure (alpha = .88) (Carvalho, Ready, Malloy, & Grace, 2013) and correlates with daily functional outcome measures (Smith, Smith, & Juengst, 2020;Velligan et al, 2002). Despite a number of translations available (e.g., Chinese, Dutch, Spanish and German) (Carvalho, Buelow, Ready, & Grace, 2016), the scale has only been officially validated in Spanish (Caracuel et al, 2012).…”

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Adaptation, Validation and Preliminary Standardisation of the Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale – Apathy Subscale and the Dimensional Apathy Scale in Vietnamese Healthy Samples

Quang

Sin²,

Kumfor

et al. 2021

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Objective: Apathy, the reduction of motivation and goal-directed behaviour, is a ubiquitous behavioural syndrome in many neurological disorders. However, apathy measures are limited in non-English speaking countries. The present study aimed to develop a culturally appropriate version of the Vietnamese Frontal Systems Behavioural Scale-Apathy subscale (V-FrSBe-A) and Dimensional Apathy Scale (V-DAS), examine their internal reliability and construct validity (i.e., factor structure, convergent and divergent validity) in a Vietnamese healthy sample and establish preliminary normative cut-offs for clinical and research applications. Method: In total, 112 healthy subjects and 64 informants completed the self-report and informant report V-FrSBe-A and V-DAS, developed using a translation, back-translation and cultural adaptation procedure. McDonald’s omega was applied to examine internal reliability. The internal structure of the V-DAS was evaluated using exploratory structural equation model. For both apathy scales, convergent validity was determined by correlations between scales and between informant and self-report versions. Regarding divergent validity, participants completed the Vietnamese Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 and V-FrSBe-Disinhibition for depression and disinhibition assessment. Results: Both the V-FrSBe-A and V-DAS were reliable (ω t ≥ .74). Dimensional manifestations of apathy in executive, emotional and initiation domains were confirmed on the V-DAS. Both scales were also valid, convergent with each other and divergent from depression and disinhibition symptoms. Cut-off scores for both scales were higher than their English versions. Conclusion: The adapted V-FrSBe-A and V-DAS have good reliability and validity for the potential application in clinical groups to advance current knowledge about apathy transculturally and direct more effective clinical care for Vietnamese individuals with neurological disorders.

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Adaptation, Validation and Preliminary Standardisation of the Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale – Apathy Subscale and the Dimensional Apathy Scale in Vietnamese Healthy Samples

Quang

Sin²,

Kumfor

et al. 2021

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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“…In research with other tests, investigators have shown that errors of intrusions and repetitions observed during fluency tasks and on tests involving learning and recalling word lists can represent not only specific memory lapses, but also failures to keep track of prior responses and/or the objectives of the task(s) at hand that increase with advancing age (Hankee, 2013; Rasmusson et al, 1998) and are evident among individuals with executive dysfunction (Holden et al, 2020; Kiselica & Benge, 2019). Although only modestly reliable (Woods et al, 2005) when used in isolation (e.g., Delis et al, 2017), scores based on these errors have been shown to correlate with formal measures of EF (Hill et al, 2012; Smith et al, 2020) and frontal lobe brain integrity (Baldo et al, 2002). Although we are not aware of aggregated EF scores from separate tests, such combinations may confer psychometric advantages in that aggregated evidence from varied sources may provide a particularly robust single measure of EF.…”

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Cross-Validating the Executive Errors Scale of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status

2023

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The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) was developed to briefly measure a broad range of cognitive abilities, but it initially lacked a scale to evaluate executive functioning. Robert Spencer and colleagues recently created an Executive Errors scale (RBANS-EE) that quantified executive functioning (EF) errors committed during four RBANS subtests: List Learning, Semantic Fluency, Coding, and List Recall. In the present paper we cross-validated the RBANS-EE with a sample of 234 U.S. military veterans ( M AGE = 67.2, SD = 11.5 years; M EDUCATION = 13.3, SD = 2.4 years) who completed the RBANS and various EF criterion measures as part of neuropsychological assessments they underwent during their clinical care. We found the RBANS-EE to be significantly correlated with most of the criterion EF measures. The RBANS-EE scale demonstrated modest ability to classify EF impairment at mild and severe levels; and, similarly, the RBANS-EE was modestly capable of accurately classifying those veteran respondents who were determined to have or to not have a neurocognitive disorder. Overall, the RBANS-EE can be quickly calculated, adds no administration time to an RBANS assessment, and yields useful scores to screen for EF dysfunction without replacing standalone EF tests.

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“…Intrusions on a PF task could be executive errors (e.g., forgetting the rules, losing the set, and using rules from a different fluency trial; McDowd et al, 2011) or phonetic/spelling related (a word with a similar sound but incorrect letter; Rofes et al, 2019). These errors have been studied in different pathologies such as brain injury, Parkinson’s disease, or Alzheimer’s disease (Smith et al, 2020), suggesting that intrusions are typical of senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type and may help distinguish it from other causes of dementia. Regarding the clinical usefulness of the error patterns analysis, it is important to remember that it is better to interpret them within the context of the whole neuropsychological assessment.…”

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Phonological fluency norms for Spanish middle-aged and older adults provided by the SCAND initiative (P, M, & R)

Delgado-Losada

Valdehita

López-Higes

et al. 2023

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Objective: Verbal fluency tests are quick and easy to administer neuropsychological measures and are regularly used in neuropsychological assessment. Additionally, phonological fluency is a widely used paradigm that is sensitive to cognitive impairment. This paper offers normative data of phonological verbal fluency (letters P, M, R) for Spanish middle- and older-aged adults, considering sociodemographic factors, and different measures such as the total number of words, errors (perseveration and intrusions), and 15 sec-segmented scores. Method: A total of 1165 cognitively unimpaired participants aged between 50 and 89 years old, participated in the study. Data for P were obtained for all participants. Letters M and R were also administered to a subsample of participants (852) aged 60 to 89 years. In addition, errors and words produced every 15 seconds were collected in the subsample. To verify the effect of sociodemographic variables, linear regression was used. Adjustments were calculated for variables that explained at least 5% of the variance (R2 ≥ .05). Results: Means and standard deviations by age, scaled scores, and percentiles for all tests across different measures are shown. No determination coefficients equal to or greater than .05 were found for sex or age. The need to establish adjustments for the educational level was only found in some of the measures. Conclusions: The current norms provide clinically useful data to evaluate Spanish-speaking natives from Spain aged from 50 to 89 years. Specific patterns of cognitive impairment can be analyzed using these normative data and may be important in neuropsychological assessment.

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Cognitive process scores associated with self-reported behavioral dysfunction on the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe) in chronic traumatic brain injury

Cited by 8 publications

References 68 publications

Adaptation, Validation and Preliminary Standardisation of the Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale – Apathy Subscale and the Dimensional Apathy Scale in Vietnamese Healthy Samples

Adaptation, Validation and Preliminary Standardisation of the Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale – Apathy Subscale and the Dimensional Apathy Scale in Vietnamese Healthy Samples

Cross-Validating the Executive Errors Scale of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status

Phonological fluency norms for Spanish middle-aged and older adults provided by the SCAND initiative (P, M, & R)

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