Criterion and construct validity of the CogState Schizophrenia Battery in Japanese patients with schizophrenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The CogState Schizophrenia Battery (CSB), a computerized cognitive battery, covers all the same cognitive domains as the Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (MATRICS) Consensus Cognitive Battery but is briefer to conduct. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the criterion and construct validity of the Japanese language version of the CSB (CSB-J) in Japanese patients with schizophrenia.

Methodology/principal findings

Forty Japanese patients with schizophrenia and 40 Japanese healthy controls with matching age, gender, and premorbid intelligence quotient were enrolled. The CSB-J and the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia, Japanese-language version (BACS-J) were performed once. The structure of the CSB-J was al

SUBMITTER: Yoshida T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3102733 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature