ArticlePsychological assessment2023
Mask wearing during neuropsychological assessment negatively impacts performance on verbal tests in older patients.
Article in Psychological assessment, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Effects of face coverings on people and interactions in mental health settings: scoping review.BJPsych open · 2025Review
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Abstract
Face masks are recommended to minimize the spread of COVID-19 and are required in many health care settings. Although masks have documented health advantages, they also negatively impact communication, an essential element of clinical neuropsychological assessment. Using a large clinical data set from a major academic medical center, we investigated the effect of mask wearing on neuropsychological test performance. Specifically, we examined performance on eight standard, widely used neuropsychological tests between a prepandemic (unmasked) and postpandemic (masked) group, composed of 754 and 837 adult patients, respectively. We compared performance on verbally mediated versus visually mediated tests, hypothesizing that the postpandemic group, compared to the prepandemic group, would perform significantly lower on the verbally mediated tests but not on the visually mediated tests. In partial support of the hypothesis, we found that the postpandemic group performed significantly worse on the Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT;
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