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Performance Validity Test Failure in the Clinical Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence Rates.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Partner-inflicted brain injury may cognitively age survivors by over a decade.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
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- Rates and Predictors of Performance Validity Test Failure in Adults Treated for Post-COVID-19 Condition: a Brief Report.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025Article
- Neuropsychological functioning after COVID-19: Minor differences between individuals with and without persistent complaints after SARS-CoV-2 infection.The Clinical neuropsychologist · 2025Article
- Inventory of Problems-29 (IOP-29) and Inventory of Problems-Memory (IOP-M) failure rates in patients with severe psychosis with and without criminal convictions.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2025Article
- Validity of the Groningen Effort Test in patients with suspected chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2024Article
- Performance Validity Testing on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery: Base Rates of Failed Embedded Validity Indicators in the Adult Normative Sample.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2024Article
- Performance validity testing: the need for digital technology and where to go from here.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Quo Vadis Forensic Neuropsychological Malingering Determinations? Reply to Drs. Bush, Faust, and Jewsbury.Neuropsychology review · 2023Review
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Abstract
Performance validity tests (PVTs) are used to measure the validity of the obtained neuropsychological test data. However, when an individual fails a PVT, the likelihood that failure truly reflects invalid performance (i.e., the positive predictive value) depends on the base rate in the context in which the assessment takes place. Therefore, accurate base rate information is needed to guide interpretation of PVT performance. This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the base rate of PVT failure in the clinical population (PROSPERO number: CRD42020164128). PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, and PsychINFO were searched to identify articles published up to November 5, 2021. Main eligibility criteria were a clinical evaluation context and utilization of stand-alone and well-validated PVTs. Of the 457 articles scrutinized for eligibility, 47 were selected for systematic review and meta-analyses. Pooled base rate of PVT failure for all included studies was 16%, 95% CI [14, 19]. High heterogeneity existed among these studies (Cochran's Q = 697.97, p < .001; I
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