Test-retest stability of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status in schizophrenia.

Full Abstract

OBJECTIVE:
The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) was designed as a cognitive screening test, providing both a total scale score and five specific cognitive ability index scores. This study examined the test-retest stability of the RBANS in individual patients with schizophrenia relative to a healthy comparison group.

METHOD:
A total of 181 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were recruited from three clinical settings. Healthy comparison subjects were recruited as part of the RBANS standardization. Participants were administered one form of the RBANS on one occasion and another form at a later date, with intervals ranging from 1 to 134 days.

RESULTS:
Intraclass correlation coefficients for the RBANS total scale were 0.84 for the patients with schizophrenia and 0.77 for the healthy comparison subjects. Confidence intervals and percentile data for the total scale change scores were similar for both groups.

CONCLUSIONS:
The RBANS demonstrated reasonable intraclass correlation coefficient test-retest reliability for both schizophrenia patients and healthy comparison subjects. Confidence intervals are comparable to those previously published for the WAIS-R and Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised, suggesting that retest measurement error is not dramatically increased in the RBANS, despite the brevity of the test. These data may serve as an informative guide for using the RBANS to evaluate neuropsychological change on the level of the individual subject.

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Author information

Author/s: Wilk, Christopher M (CM); Gold, James M (JM); Bartko, John J (JJ); Dickerson, Faith (F); Fenton, Wayne S (WS); Knable, Michael (M); Randolph, Christopher (C); Buchanan, Robert W (RW);

Affiliation: Maryland Psychiatric Research center, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore, 21228-0747, USA.

Grants: MH-40279 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

Journal: The American journal of psychiatry (Am J Psychiatry), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-May; vol 159 (issue 5) : pp 838-44

Dates: Created 2002/05/02; Completed 2002/06/03; Revised 2007/11/14;

PMID: 11986139, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentIn: Evid Based Ment Health. 2003 Feb;6(1):22. (PMID: 12588828)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent
Adult
Cognition Disorders - diagnosis
Confidence Intervals
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged

Neuropsychological Tests - standards; statistics & numerical data
Psychometrics
Psychotic Disorders - diagnosis; psychology
Reproducibility of Results
Schizophrenia - diagnosis
Schizophrenic Psychology
Sensitivity and Specificity
Wechsler Scales - statistics & numerical data

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