Journal
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
Volume 187, Issue 1-2, Pages 1-5Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.11.011
Keywords
Assessment; Cognition; Test of Grocery Shopping Skills; Ecological validity; Canonical correlation
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- National Institute of Mental Health
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This study examined the relationships between a set of real-world performance measures and a set of executive function measures with a sample of community based individuals with schizophrenia (N=80). Participants were given a battery of cognitive tests and were evaluated with a real-world performance measure, the Test of Grocery Shopping Skills (TOGSS). Using canonical correlation analysis, executive functions of planning, problem solving, working memory, and task persistence were significantly related to grocery shopping efficiency and accuracy. Two canonical variates with moderate correlations (0.547 and 0.519) explain that 30% of the variance in the executive function and grocery shopping measures was shared. These results identify patterns of association between executive function performance and the independent living skill of grocery shopping indicating the Test of Grocery Shopping Skills may be considered a sensitive measure of executive function performance in a real-world setting. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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