Selective Reminding Test short form administration: A comparison of two through twelve trials.

Abstract

The Selective Reminding Test (SRT) is a list-learning task developed to assess verbal memory. The goal of this study was to assess the clinical utility of fewer trials of the SRT as compared with a 12trial administration, using 2 clinical populations. One sample consisted of 100 end-stage cardiac patients undergoing evaluation for heart transplantation. The other group was made up of 100 patients being evaluated after traumatic brain injury. Scores were derived for Trials 2 through 12. Correlational analyses conducted among these scores revealed correlations exceeding .90 between 6 and 12 trials and correlations exceeding .95 between 8 and 12 trials. These results suggest that fewer trials of the SRT would provide information highly consistent with that provided by 12 trials while reducing administration time.

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“…A recent study examining VSRT performance among patients with traumatic brain injury and patients undergoing evaluation for cardiac transplant obtained comparable correlations (Smith et al, 1995). Examining the correlation between the 6-trial VSRT and other memory measures would be useful, since part-whole correlations can be spuriously high.…”

“…One recent study examined the correlations between a 12-trial VSRT and scores derived from the administration of fewer trials (Smith, Goode, La Marche, & Boll, 1995). Populations assessed in this study included 100 patients with traumatic brain injury and 100 patients with endstage heart disease who were undergoing neuropsychological evaluation for cardiac transplant candidacy.…”