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SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
卷 48, 期 2-3, 页码 307-316出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(00)00060-8
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construct validity; continuous performance test; schizophrenia; symptom scales
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The Penn Continuous Performance Test (PCPT), a measure of sustained visual attention developed for use in functional neuroimaging studies, was compared with a standard CPT developed by Gordon Diagnostic Systems (GDS; Vigilance subtest). The PCPT and the GDS CPT were administered with a standard neuropsychological battery to 68 healthy adults to assess reliability and construct validity. The test had adequate internal consistency, and convergent validity was established through significant correlations between measures of efficiency on the PCPT and the GDS CPT. With the exception of a significant correlation between efficiency measures on the GDS CPT and a measure of auditory sustained attention, neither version of the CPT correlated significantly with other measures in the battery. Factor analysis showed that the PCPT loaded with the GDS CPT, In 39 patients with schizophrenia and 39 matched, healthy controls, equivalent impairment was evident on the two CPT tasks. Neither version correlated significantly with symptom measurements. These results support previous conclusions that sustained visual attention in schizophrenia is a core information processing deficit, not directly related to symptomatology. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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