Citation

Lebby PC, Pollock M, Mouanoutoua A, Lewey JH. J. Child Neurol. 2014; 30(10): 1255-1262.

Affiliation

California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Fresno, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0883073814556886

PMID

25403459

Abstract

Traumatic brain injuries are one of the leading causes of deaths and disabilities in children and adolescents. There is a need for clinicians to quickly screen for disrupted cognitive functioning to appropriately refer to specialists. The Lebby-Asbell Neurocognitive Screening Examination for Children and Lebby-Asbell Neurocognitive Screening Examination for Adolescents were developed to fill a gap in available measures and create a screening tool to quickly identify impaired neurocognitive functioning. A series of statistical analyses were conducted to determine their clinical utility. A multivariate analysis of variance found a statistically significant difference between those with brain injury (n = 59) from noninjured (n = 190) on the combined dependent variables, F(14, 234) = 46.530, P <.001; Wilks Lambda =.264; partial η(2) =.763. The Lebby-Asbell Neurocognitive Screening Examinations for Children and Adolescents are effective neurocognitive screening measures for children and adolescents in identifying brain injury.

Language: en