Trial reportJournal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS2013
Using the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological status (RBANS) effort index to predict treatment group attendance in patients with schizophrenia.
Trial report in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Meta-Analysis of Neuropsychological Effort Test Performance in Psychotic Disorders.Neuropsychology review · 2020Pooled it
- RBANS Validity Indices: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2018Pooled it
- UPSA-M: Feasibility and initial validity of a mobile application of the UCSD Performance-Based Skills Assessment.Schizophrenia research · 2015Trial
- Domain-specific associations between social cognition and aggression in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Article
- Predictors of attendance in health and wellness treatment groups for people with serious mental illness.Psychiatric rehabilitation journal · 2020Article
- The role of low cognitive effort and negative symptoms in neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia.Neuropsychology · 2015Article
- Predictors of neuropsychological effort test performance in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2015Article
- Effort in acute traumatic brain injury: considering more than pass/fail.Rehabilitation psychology · 2014Article
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Abstract
In a psychosocial treatment study, knowing which participants are likely to put forth adequate effort to maximize their treatment, such as attending group sessions and completing homework assignments, and knowing which participants need additional motivation before engagement in treatment is a crucial component to treatment success. This study examined the ability of the Repeatable Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) Effort Index (EI), a newly developed measure of suboptimal effort that is embedded within the RBANS, to predict group attendance in a sample of 128 middle-aged and older adults with schizophrenia. This study was the first to evaluate the EI with a schizophrenia sample. While the EI literature recommends a cutoff score of >3 to be considered indicative of poor effort, a cutoff of >4 was identified as the optimal cutoff for this sample. Receiver Operating Characteristics curve analyses were conducted to determine if the EI could predict participants who had high versus low attendance. Results indicated that the EI was successfully able to discriminate between group attendance, and this measure of effort appears to be most valuable as a tool to identify participants who will have high attendance. Of interest, overall cognitive functioning and symptoms of psychopathology were not predictive of group attendance.
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