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A short screening battery of tests to detect organic brain dysfunction
Author(s) -
Kapur Malavika
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197801)34:1<104::aid-jclp2270340124>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - battery (electricity) , psychology , stepwise regression , sample (material) , statistics , audiology , medicine , mathematics , chromatography , chemistry , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
Constructed a short screening device to measure organic brain dysfunction, suitable for literate and non‐literate populations. A battery that consisted of 8 tests and 22 scoring variables was administered to 65 brain‐damaged S s and 65 normal S s. The two groups were matched on a person‐to‐person basis with respect to age, sex and years of schooling. Stepwise multiple regression technique was used to develop a procedure for discriminating organics from normals. At a selected cut‐off point the battery could discriminate between organics and normals with only 6% misclassification of normals and 16% misclassification of organics. The classificatory system was validated further against a fresh sample of 33 S s. The battery proved to have satisfactory discriminatory capacity.