Effort, symptom validity testing, performance validity testing and traumatic brain injury

ED Bigler - Brain injury, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Background: To understand the neurocognitive effects of brain injury, valid
neuropsychological test findings are paramount. Review: This review examines the research …

Deployment‐related psychiatric and behavioral conditions and their association with functional disability in OEF/OIF/OND veterans

SM Lippa, JR Fonda, CB Fortier… - Journal of traumatic …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the factors that influence veterans' functional outcome after deployment is
critical to provide appropriately targeted care. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and …

Ecological validity in neurocognitive assessment: Systematized review, content analysis, and proposal of an instrument

JO Pinto, AR Dores, B Peixoto… - Applied Neuropsychology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives The main objectives of this study are to identify the dimensions of Ecological
Validity (EV) within the definitions of this concept, understand how they are operationalized …

Worse baseline executive functioning is associated with dropout and poorer response to trauma-focused treatment for veterans with PTSD and comorbid traumatic …

LD Crocker, SM Jurick, KR Thomas, AV Keller… - Behaviour research and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Although trauma-focused treatment, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT),
effectively reduces PTSD symptoms, treatment dropout, nonresponse, and relapse are …

Sensitivity and specificity should never be interpreted in isolation without consideration of other clinical utility metrics

RT Lange, SM Lippa - The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the risks and pitfalls of interpreting
sensitivity and specificity in isolation when evaluating the clinical utility of a new …

Grooved Pegboard adds incremental value over memory-apparent performance validity tests in predicting psychiatric symptom report

JD Jinkerson, LH Lu, J Kennedy… - Applied …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present study evaluated whether Grooved Pegboard (GPB), when used as a
performance validity test (PVT), can incrementally predict psychiatric symptom report …

Clinical utility of the mBIAS and NSI validity-10 to detect symptom over-reporting following mild TBI: A multicenter investigation with military service members

P Armistead-Jehle, DB Cooper, CE Grills… - Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Self-report measures are commonly relied upon in military healthcare environments to
assess service members following a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). However, such …

Do demographic factors influence detection of invalid neuropsychological test performance using common performance validity tests? A multisite investigation.

JR Soble, BM Cerny, T Rhoads, AB DeBoer… - …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: This study examined the extent to which demographic variables (ie, age,
education, premorbid IQ, sex, ethnoracial identity, and presence/absence of external …

Predictive value of performance validity testing and symptom validity testing in psychoeducational assessment

AG Harrison, AL Beal, IT Armstrong - Applied Neuropsychology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Using archival data from 2463 psychoeducational assessments of postsecondary students
we investigated whether failure on either symptom or performance validity tests (SVTs or …

Relative utility of performance and symptom validity tests

CT Copeland, JJ Mahoney, CK Block… - Archives of Clinical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This investigation adds to the burgeoning body of research concerned with discriminating
performance and symptom validity tests (SVTs) through examination of their differential …