Using virtual reality to evaluate executive functioning among persons with schizophrenia: A validity study

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 115, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 270-277

  Josman, Naomi ^a   Schenirderman, Anat Elbaz ^a   Klinger, Evelyne ^b   Shevil, Eynat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Arts et Metiers ParisTech   (France)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL); Performance based assessment; Virtual Action Planning Supermarket (VAP S)

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF DYSEXECUTIVE SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSITIVE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; VIRTUAL ACTION PLANNING SUPERMARKET; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 71949127451     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Baker E.K., Kurtz M.M., and Astur R.S. Virtual reality assessment of medication compliance in patients with schizophrenia. Cyberpsychol. Behav. 9 2 (2006) 224-229
2. Bryson G., Whelahan H.A., and Bell M. Memory and executive function impairments in deficit syndrome schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res. 102 1 (2001) 29-37
3. Burgess P.W., Alderman N., Forbes C., Costello A., Coates L.M., Dawson D.R., et al. The case for the development and use of "ecologically valid" measures of executive function in experimental and clinical neuropsychology. J. Int. Neuropsychol. Soc. 12 2 (2006) 194-209
4. Burgess P.W., Veitch E., de Lacy Costello A., and Shallice T. The cognitive and neuroanatomical correlates of multitasking. Neuropsychologia 38 6 (2000) 848-863
5. Chaytor N., Schmitter-Edgecombe M., and Burr R. Improving the ecological validity of executive functioning assessment. Arch. Clin. Neuropsychol. 21 3 (2006) 217-227
6. Donohoe G., Corvin A., and Robertson I.H. Evidence that specific executive functions predict symptom variance among schizophrenia patients with a predominantly negative symptom profile. Cogn. Neuropsychiatry 11 1 (2006) 13-32
7. Donohoe G., and Robertson I.H. Can specific deficits in executive functioning explain the negative symptoms of schizophrenia? A review. Neurocase 9 2 (2003) 97-108
8. Goverover Y. Categorization, deductive reasoning, and self-awareness: association with everyday competence in persons with acute brain injury. J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol. 26 6 (2004) 737-749
9. Hutton S.B., Puri B.K., Duncan L.J., Robbins T.W., Barnes T.R., and Joyce E.M. Executive function in first-episode schizophrenia. Psychol. Med. 28 2 (1998) 463-473
10. Josman N. The dynamic interactional model for children and adolescents. In: Katz N. (Ed). Cognition and occupation across the life span. 2nd ed. (2005), AOTA Press, Bethesda, MD 261-276
11. Josman, N., Hof, E., Klinger, E., Marie, R.M., Goldenberg, K., Weiss, P.L., et al., 2006. Performance within a virtual supermarket and its relationship to executive functions in post-stroke patients. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation.
12. Josman N., and Katz N. Relationships of categorization on tests and daily tasks in patients with schizophrenia, post-stroke patients and healthy controls. Psychiatry Res. 141 1 (2006) 15-28
13. Josman N., Milika Ben-Chaim N., Friedrich H., and Weiss P.L. Effectiveness of virtual reality for teaching street-crossing skills to children and adolescents with autism. J. Disabil Hum. Dev. 7 1 (2008) 49-56
14. Katz N., and Hartman-Maeir A. Higher-level cognitive functions. In: Katz N. (Ed). Cognition and occupation across the life span (2005), AOTA Press, Bethesda, MD 3-26
15. Katz N., Tadmor I., Felzen B., and Hartman-Maeir A. The Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome (BADS) in schizophrenia and its relation to functional outcomes. Neuropsychol. Rehabil. 17 2 (2007) 192-205
16. Kay S.R., Fiszbein A., and Opler L.A. The positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) for schizophrenia. Schizophr. Bull. 13 2 (1987) 261-276
17. Klinger E., Chemin I., Lebreton S., and Marié R.M. A virtual supermarket to assess cognitive planning. Cyberpsychol. Behav. 7 3 (2004) 292-293
18. Klinger E., Chemin I., Lebreton S., and Marié R.M. Virtual Action Planning in Parkinson's Disease: a control study. Cyberpsychol. Behav. 9 3 (2006) 342-347
19. Klinger, E., Marié, R.M., Lebreton, S., Weiss, P.L., Hof, E., Josman, N., 2008. The VAP-S: A virtual supermarket for the assessment of metacognitive functioning. Paper presented at the VRIC'08 Conference, Laval, France.
20. Klinger, E., Weiss, P.L., Joseph, P.A., in press. Virtual Reality for Learning and Rehabilitation. In: J.P. Didier & E. Bigand (Eds.), Learning and education into learning and rehabilitation strategy: Springer.
21. Kurtz M.M., Baker E., Pearlson G.D., and Astur R.S. A virtual reality apartment as a measure of medication management skills in patients with schizophrenia: a pilot study. Schizophr. Bull. 33 5 (2007) 1162-1170
22. Lo Priore C., Castelnuovo G., and Liccione D. Experience with V-STORE: considerations on presence in virtual environments for effective neuropsychological rehabilitation of executive functions. Cyberpsychol. Behav. 6 3 (2003) 281-287
23. Marié, R.M., Klinger, E., Chemin, I., Josset, M., 2003. Cognitive Planning assessed by Virtual Reality. Paper presented at the VRIC 2003, Laval Virtual Conference, Laval, France.
24. Odhuba R.A., van den Broek M.D., and Johns L.C. Ecological validity of measures of executive functioning. Br. J. Clin. Psychol. 44 Pt 2 (2005) 269-278
25. Pantelis C., Barnes T.R., Nelson H.E., Tanner S., Weatherley L., Owen A.M., et al. Frontal-striatal cognitive deficits in patients with chronic schizophrenia. Brain 120 Pt 10 (1997) 1823-1843
26. Posada A., Franck N., Georgieff N., and Jeannerod M. Anticipating incoming events: an impaired cognitive process in schizophrenia. Cognition 81 3 (2001) 209-225
27. Pratt S.I., Mueser K.T., Smith T.E., and Lu W. Self-efficacy and psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia: a mediational analysis. Schizophr. Res. 78 2-3 (2005) 187-197
28. Rand, D., Katz, N., Weiss, P.L., 2007. Evaluation of virtual shopping in the VMall: Comparison of post-stroke participants to healthy control groups. Disabil. Rehabil. 1-10.
29. Rizzo A.A., Schultheis M.T., Kerns K.A., and Mateer C. Analysis of assets for virtual reality applications in neuropsychology. Neuropsychol. Rehab. 14 (2004) 207-239
30. Seacrest L., Wood A.E., and Tapp A. A comparison of the Allen Cognitive Level Test and the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in adults with schizophrenia. Am. J. Occup. Ther. 54 (2000) 129-133
31. Semkovska M., Bedard M.A., Godbout L., Limoge F., and Stip E. Assessment of executive dysfunction during activities of daily living in schizophrenia. Schizophr. Res. 69 2-3 (2004) 289-300
32. Werner P., Rabinowitz S., Klinger E., Korczyn A.S., and Josman N. The use of the virtual action planning supermarket for the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. Dement. Geriatr. Cogn. Disord. 27 (2009) 301-309
33. WHO. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), Geneva: W. H. Organisation (2001).
34. Wilson B.A., Alderman N., Burgess P.W., Emslie H., and Evans J.J. Behavioral Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome Manual (1996), Thames Valley Test Company, UK
35. Zalla T., Plassiart C., Pillon B., Grafman J., and Sirigu A. Action planning in a virtual context after prefrontal cortex damage. Neuropsychologia 39 8 (2001) 759-770