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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES
卷 54, 期 5, 页码 664-680出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00450618.2020.1865457
关键词
Intellectual disability; performance validity; embedded validity indicators; false positive rate; forensic assessment
The study aimed to determine the clinical utility of embedded performance validity indicators (EVIs) in adults with intellectual disability during neuropsychological assessment. The results showed high base rates of failure on most EVIs, potentially reflecting instrumentation artefacts, but similar performance on select EVIs related to recognition memory and unusual patterns of performance between intellectually disabled and cognitively higher functioning individuals.
This study was designed to determine the clinical utility of embedded performance validity indicators (EVIs) in adults with intellectual disability (ID) during neuropsychological assessment. Based on previous research, unacceptably high (>16%) base rates of failure (BRFail) were predicted on EVIs using on the method of threshold, but not on EVIs based on alternative detection methods. A comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests was administered to 23 adults with ID (M-Age = 37.7 years, M-FSIQ = 64.9). BRFail were computed at two levels of cut-offs for 32 EVIs. Patients produced very high BRFail on 22 EVIs (18.2%-100%), indicating unacceptable levels of false positive errors. However, on the remaining ten EVIs BRFail was <16%. Moreover, six of the EVIs had a zero BRFail, indicating perfect specificity. Consistent with previous research, individuals with ID failed the majority of EVIs at high BRFail. However, they produced BRFail similar to cognitively higher functioning patients on select EVIs based on recognition memory and unusual patterns of performance, suggesting that the high BRFail reported in the literature may reflect instrumentation artefacts. The implications of these findings for clinical and forensic assessment are discussed.
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