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Rehabilitation and Therapy

Journal

2007

Attention

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A Reviewarticle Of Psychometric Properties Of Five Tests Of Attention Commonly Used In Patients With Stroke, Hui-Yan Chiau, I-Ping Hsueh, Chia-Lin Koh, Hui-Chun Chen, Chin-Ling Hsieh Dec 2007

A Reviewarticle Of Psychometric Properties Of Five Tests Of Attention Commonly Used In Patients With Stroke, Hui-Yan Chiau, I-Ping Hsueh, Chia-Lin Koh, Hui-Chun Chen, Chin-Ling Hsieh

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background and purpose: Comparison of the psychometric properties of tests of attention can provide guidelines with which clinicians and researchers can determine a useful measurement. The purpose of this study is to reviewarticle and appraise the psychometric properties of attentional tests frequently used during the last 3 years in empirical studies of stroke and to determine how well these tests can be applied on people with stroke.Methods: This study included two parts: first, a search from the MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Index to Chinese Periodical Literature databases for attentional tests used more than twice in empirical studies of stroke in …