Reliability, practice effects, and change indices for Raos brief repeatable battery

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 611-617

  Portaccio, Emilio ^a   Goretti, Benedetta ^a   Zipoli, Valentina ^a   Iudice, Alfonso ^b   Pina, Dario Della ^c   Malentacchi, Gian Michele ^d   Sabatini, Simonetta ^e   Annunziata, Pasquale ^f   Falcini, Mario ^g   Mazzoni, Monica ^h   Pia Amato, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Hospital of Carrara   (Italy)

^d Hospital of Arezzo   (Italy)

^e Hospital of Terni   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^g Hospital of Prato   (Italy)

^h Hospital of Lucca   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Multiple sclerosis; Practice effects; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; RAO BRIEF REPEATABLE BATTERY; STROOP TEST; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77952825584     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458510362818     Document Type: Article

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