Performance of compensation seeking and non-compensation seeking samples on the Victoria Symptom Validity Test: Cross-validation and extension of a standardization study
Cl. Grote et al., Performance of compensation seeking and non-compensation seeking samples on the Victoria Symptom Validity Test: Cross-validation and extension of a standardization study, J CL EXP N, 22(6), 2000, pp. 709-719
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology,Neurology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Previous research suggests that the Victoria Symptom Validity Test (VSVT) i
s effective in confirming or disconfirming the validity of a patient's repo
rted cognitive impairments. We sought to cross-validate the Findings of the
VSVT standardization study, and to determine cut-off scores that are most
efficient in discriminating our samples of compensation-seeking patients, p
rimarily with mild traumatic brain injury (CS; n = 53), and non-compensatio
n seeking patients with intractable seizures (NCS; n = 30). All patients in
the NCS sample scored in the "valid" range on the VSVT difficult memory it
ems, compared to only 58.5% of the CS sample. We also identified VSVT measu
res and cut-off scores maximally efficient in discriminating these samples.
This study confirms previous research that non-compensation seeking patien
ts do well on the VSVT, but that many compensation seeking patients perform
poorly on this measure.