Psychometric Properties of the NIH Toolbox Cognition and Emotion Batteries Among Children and Adolescents with Congenital Heart Defects.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The NIH Toolbox offers brief, computerized measures of cognitive and psychosocial functioning. However, its psychometric properties were established among typically developing children and adolescents. The current study provides the first comprehensive assessment of its psychometric properties among young patients with congenital heart defects (CHD).

Study design

We prospectively recruited 58 patients with CHD and 80 healthy controls between the ages of 6 and 17. Participants completed the NIH Toolbox Cognition and Emotion Batteries, a battery of clinician-administered neuropsychological tests, and ratings of their quality of life. Their parents also completed ratings of their functioning.

Results

On the Cognition Battery, we found expectable group differenc

SUBMITTER: Wallace J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949204 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature