Poor Executive Functions among Children with Moderate-into-Severe Asthma: Evidence from WCST Performance
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Poor Executive Functions among Children with Moderate-into-Severe Asthma: Evidence from WCST Performance
Executive functions (EFs) measures of 27 asthmatic children, with general learning difficulties, were tested by using the Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST), and were compared to the performances of 30 non-asthmatic children with general learning difficulties. The results revealed that the asthmatic group has poor performance through all the WCST psychometric parameters and especially the perse...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00793