Ecological validity of the screening module and the Daily Living tests of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery using the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory-4 in postacute brain injury rehabilitation.

Zgaljardic, Dennis J.; Yancy, Sybil; Temple, Richard; Watford, Monica; Miller, Rebekah

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“…NAB Judgment. The NAB Judgment test (range = 0–20) asks participants to answer 10 questions about health and safety situations and has demonstrated ecological validity for various decision-making tasks [ 31 , 32 ].…”

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“…For example, the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) measures decision-making in ambiguous situations, which is believed to be important for performing IADLs [ 30 ]. Other research has demonstrated associations between IADL functioning and scores on tests of judgment and decision-making [ 31 , 32 ], maze navigation [ 33 ], abstract reasoning and concept formation [ 34 ], and verbal fluency [ 35 ].…”

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Phishing suspiciousness in older and younger adults: The role of executive functioning

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Phishing is the spoofing of Internet websites or emails aimed at tricking users into entering sensitive information, with such goals as financial or identity theft. The current study sought to determine whether age is associated with increased susceptibility to phishing and whether tests of executive functioning can predict phishing susceptibility. A total of 193 cognitively intact participants, 91 younger adults and 102 older adults, were primarily recruited through a Psychology department undergraduate subject pool and a gerontology research registry, respectively. The Executive Functions Module from the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery and the Iowa Gambling Task were the primary cognitive predictors of reported phishing suspiciousness. Other predictors included age group (older vs. younger), sex, education, race, ethnicity, prior knowledge of phishing, prior susceptibility to phishing, and whether or not browsing behaviors were reportedly different in the laboratory setting versus at home. A logistic regression, which accounted for a 22.7% reduction in error variance compared to the null model and predicted phishing suspiciousness with 73.1% (95% CI [66.0, 80.3]) accuracy, revealed three statistically significant predictors: the main effect of education (b = 0.58, SE = 0.27) and the interactions of age group with prior awareness of phishing (b = 2.31, SE = 1.12) and performance on the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Mazes test (b = 0.16, SE = 0.07). Whether or not older adults reported being suspicious of the phishing attacks used in this study was partially explained by educational history and prior phishing knowledge. This suggests that simple educational interventions may be effective in reducing phishing vulnerability. Although one test of executive functioning was found useful for identifying those at risk of phishing susceptibility, four tests were not found to be useful; these results speak to the need for more ecologically valid tools in clinical neuropsychology.

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Phishing suspiciousness in older and younger adults: The role of executive functioning

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“…Each NAB test includes an equivalent/alternate form for repeat testing (Stern & White, 2003). Several NAB tests have been shown to have excellent diagnostic classification accuracy in AD (Gavett et al, 2009(Gavett et al, , 2010(Gavett et al, , 2012, and NAB tests, including the Daily Living tests, have been shown to be associated with IADLs in samples with mixed disorders or other non-AD conditions (Cahn-Weiner, Wittenberg, & McDonald, 2009;MacDougall & Mansbach, 2013;Sadek et al, 2011;Zgaljardic, Yancy, Temple, Watford, & Miller, 2011). Two tests from the NAB (Mazes (Niewoehner et al, 2012) and Driving Scenes (Brown et al, 2005;Stern et al, 2016)) have been found to predict on-road driving in older subjects across the AD spectrum.…”

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Clinical Utility of Select Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Tests in Predicting Functional Abilities in Dementia

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et al. 2017

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

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“…Studies in these populations have demonstrated ecological validity of the S-NAB through associations between S-NAB scores and tests measuring daily functional status (29,30). Evidence for construct validity of the S-NAB was also found in these samples, with S-NAB index scores significantly related to scores of the Modified Mini-Mental State Exam (3MSE), the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMS), and the Repeated Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) (26,28).…”

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Neuropsychological Assessment Battery-Screening Module (S-NAB): Performance in treatment-seeking cocaine users

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Elliott

Stohl

et al. 2014

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

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Background Cocaine use is associated with cognitive impairments, which can have a negative effect on treatment retention and drug use. Thus, there is an increasing demand for a screening cognitive battery can be used by clinicians to detect such impairments in cocaine patients so that treatment can be adapted to patients’ specific cognitive strengths and deficits. The Neuropsychological Assessment Battery-Screening Module (S-NAB) test for adults takes approximately 35–45 min to administer, and assesses attention, language, memory (verbal and visual), visual spatial reasoning, and executive functioning. Objective The purpose of this descriptive study was to present S-NAB score results for a sample of treatment seeking adult cocaine users to determine its potential utility for detecting cognitive impairments in this population. Methods In the present sample, 145 adult cocaine users participated in screening to enroll in an intervention to decrease cocaine use (59% male; 73.1% African American); screening included the S-NAB and self-report questionnaires. Results A substantial proportion of the sample (44%) met criteria for impairment, i.e. composite scores of one or more standard deviations below the mean. Furthermore, memory scores were significantly lower than language and spatial scores (p < 0.007). Conclusions The impairments detected by the S-NAB were generally consistent with those previously observed in samples of cocaine users completing other batteries, as well in other substance abusing samples completing the S-NAB. This suggests that the S-NAB can be considered an additional appropriate battery, as an alternative to other existing batteries, for assessment of the cognitive functioning of adult cocaine users.

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Ecological validity of the screening module and the Daily Living tests of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery using the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory-4 in postacute brain injury rehabilitation.

Abstract: The current study supports prior work from our lab assessing the predictive value of the NAB-SM, as well as provides evidence for the ecological validity for select NAB-DL tests in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury admitted to a residential PABIR program.

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Phishing suspiciousness in older and younger adults: The role of executive functioning

Phishing suspiciousness in older and younger adults: The role of executive functioning

Clinical Utility of Select Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Tests in Predicting Functional Abilities in Dementia

Neuropsychological Assessment Battery-Screening Module (S-NAB): Performance in treatment-seeking cocaine users

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