OBJECTIVE The overall goal of this work is to create new speech perception tests that more closely resemble real world communication and offer an alternative or complement to the commonly used sentence recall test. DESIGN We describe the development of a new ongoing speech comprehension test based on short everyday passages and on-the-go questions. We also describe the results of an experimen...

Psychometric data (19 variables) on the cognitive abilities of large samples of American white (W) and black (B) male armed services veterans were factor analyzed to test Spearman's hypothesis that variation in the size of the mean W±B di€erence on various cognitive tests is directly related to variation in the size of the tests' loadings on the g factor. The hypothesis is strongly borne out by...

objectives: within the context of health-related quality of life studies, it was necessary to translate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the sf-12 health survey version 2. the aim of this study was to investigate the factorial structure, convergent validity and reliability of this instrument in a healthy iranian sample, following translation and establishment of content and face vali...

Auditory processing disorders (APDs) are of interest to educators and clinicians, as they impact school functioning. Little work has been completed to demonstrate how children with APDs perform on clinical tests. In a series of studies, standard clinical (psychometric) tests from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) were used to establish concurrent validity be...

The diagnostic process after referral to an acute psychiatric treatment facility consists of more than the clinical investigation and laboratory tests. Psychometric tests in a broad range of languages may be such an augmentation of our diagnostic armamentarium. Whether such tests are in use, and how they are distributed among different patient categories was the aim of the study. All referrals ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is associated with a poor prognosis in patients with advanced liver disease. Probiotics alter the intestinal microbiota with non-urease-producing organisms that reduce production of ammonia. We investigated the efficacy of probiotics for the primary prophylaxis of HE. METHODS We conducted a prospective trial at a tertiary care referral institute i...

Accepted 21 January 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T he dual roles of neuropsychological testing in sports concussion are well established. Neuropsychological assessment may aid understanding of the brain structures and processes underlying concussion and the postconcussion syndrome. Although this is a primary goal of neuropsychologists working in sport concussion, a more im...

BACKGROUND Scientific focus on rugby has increased over the recent years, providing evidence of the physical or physiological characteristics and game-specific skills needed in the sport. Identification of tests commonly used to measure these characteristics is important for the development of test batteries, which in turn may be used for talent identification and injury prevention programmes. ...

On-line personality tests are increasingly being used in a number of areas, from psychological research to commercial testing services, and interest in them seems to be growing. In addition to those who are professionally concerned with psychometric testing, people in general (or at least a sizeable number of Internet users) seem to be fascinated by the topic. There are newsgroups and other dis...