A further study on the sustained attention response to task (SART): the effect of age, gender and education

The present study aimed to investigate the potential effect of age, gender and education upon the theoretically sound measure of sustained attention-S ustained Attention Response to Task (SART)-amongst a control sample and pat ients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The SART is a simple and brief com puter-assisted programme for assessing sustained attention over a short per iod of time. Two further studies on the use of the SART among the Hong Kong Chinese were conducted. In particular, experiment 1 recruited a control gr oup to study the potential impact of age, education, and gender upon the pe rformance of the SART. Experiment 2 was aimed to establish the discriminati ve validity of the SART upon the attentional slip in a larger sample of pat ients with TBI and the normal controls. The potential impact of age, gender , and education upon the SART performance was found to be minimal. In keepi ng with previous studies, the present findings demonstrate that SART is abl e to discriminate the patients with TBI from normal controls.