Reliability of the NIH toolbox cognitive battery in children and adolescents: a 3-year longitudinal examination.

CONCLUSIONS: Reliability of the NIH-TB Cognitive Battery was lower than expected given early work examining shorter test-retest intervals. Moreover, there were very few instances of tests meeting stability requirements for use in research; none of the tests exhibited adequate reliability for use in clinical applications. Reliability is paramount to establishing the validity of the tool, thus the constructs assessed by the NIH-TB may vary over time in youth. We recommend further refinement of the NIH-TB Cognitive Battery and its norming procedures for children before further adoption as a neuropsychological assessment. We also urge researchers who have already employed the NIH-TB in their studies to interpret their results with caution. PMID: 33032665 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Psychological Medicine - October 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Taylor BK, Frenzel MR, Eastman JA, Wiesman AI, Wang YP, Calhoun VD, Stephen JM, Wilson TW Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research