UPSA-M: Feasibility and initial validity of a mobile application of the UCSD Performance-Based Skills Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to develop and validate a tablet mobile application version of the UCSD Performance-Based Skills Assessment (UPSA-M), a widely used test for assessing functional capacity in schizophrenia and other neurocognitively impaired patient populations.

Methods

The UPSA-M was developed for an iPad platform. Twenty-one middle-aged and older adults with schizophrenia and 13 healthy comparison (HC) participants completed a brief iPad tutorial, followed by the UPSA-M (full version, which includes all components of Brief UPSA-M) and a computer usage questionnaire. During a separate visit, patients with schizophrenia and HC participants completed the Brief UPSA (UPSA-B), and patients with schizophrenia completed a symptom inventory and brief neuropsychological sc

SUBMITTER: Moore RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4409538 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature