Assessment Tools for Executive Function and Adaptive Function Following Brain Pathology Among Children in Developing Country Contexts: a Scoping Review of Current Tools.

ABSTRACT: Several tools have been developed to assess executive function (EFs) and adaptive functioning, although in mainly Western populations. Information on tools for low-and-middle-income country children is scanty. A scoping review of such instruments was therefore undertaken.We followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis- Scoping Review extension (PRISMA-ScR) checklist (Tricco et al., in Annals of Internal Medicine 169(7), 467-473, 2018). A search was made for primary research papers of all study designs that focused on development or adaptation of EF or adaptive function tools in low-and-middle-income countries, published between 1^st January 1894 to 15^th September 2020. 14 bibliographic databases were searched, including several non-Eng

SUBMITTER: Kusi-Mensah K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9381467 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature