PSYCHOMETRIC AND CLINICAL TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY OF THE HALSTEAD IMPAIRMENT INDEX IN A SAMPLE OF HEALTHY, YOUNG, NORMAL MEN
作者:
JOSEPH MATARAZZO,
ARTHUR WIENS,
RUTH MATARAZZO,
STEVEN GOLDSTEIN,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1974)
卷期:
Volume 158,
issue 1
页码: 37-49
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1974
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Twenty-nine normal young men were administered the Halstead Battery and two additional tests commonly employed by neuropsychologists and were re-examined by the same instruments 20 weeks later. The results indicate that for our sample of normalSs the classification of an individual as “normal” by the Halstead Impairment Index is a clinical judgment with a very high degree of reliability. Data from two comparison groups (patients with cerebrovascular disease and patients with chronic schizophrenia) lent support to this conclusion. A similar study with other samples of normalSs as well as other better defined and matched psychiatric and brain-damagedSs is needed both to cross-validate and to extend this finding in order to increase the practicing clinician's confidence in his interpretation of an obtained value falling in thenormalrange for a given individual. Clinical neuropsychology is rapidly developing to the point that such validity (clinical reliability) for such individual judgments is no longer a hope but an increasingly more probable expectation.
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