Effects of Cautioning and Education in the Detection of Malingered Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Effects of Cautioning and Education in the Detection of Malingered Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Creator

  • Author: Scholtz, Brendon P.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Guarnaccia, Charles A.
    Contributor Info: Charles A. Guarnaccia, Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Bink, Martin
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Sewell, Kenneth W.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Quinn, James
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 2006-05
  • Digitized: 2008-04-22

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This study examined the effectiveness of cautioning and education on simulating a mild traumatic brain injury on several neuropsychological measures. The measures used included the Word Memory Test (WMT), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales® - Third Edition (WAIS®-III), Wechsler Memory Scales®-3rd Edition instrument (WMS®-III), 16-item version of the Rey Memory Test, and a self-report symptom checklist. Five experimental groups were used including clinical and non-clinical controls, as well as three simulation groups. The design and implementation of this study also attempted to correct several methodological short comings of prior research by increasing the incentives for participants, expanding the generalizability of findings and examining research compliance and participant self-perception through debriefing. Discriminant analysis was utilized to determine if specific functions existed that would correctly classify and distinguish each experimental group. Several discriminant functions had at least moderate canonical correlations and good classification accuracy. Results also include utility estimates given projected varying base rates of malingering.

Subject

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Brain damage -- Diagnosis.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Malingering -- Diagnosis.
  • Keyword: malingering
  • Keyword: brain injury
  • Keyword: neuropsychology
  • Keyword: feigning

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: Scholtz, Brendon P.
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • OCLC: 70716848
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc5247

Degree

  • Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy
  • Degree Level: Doctoral
  • Degree Discipline: Clinical Psychology
  • Academic Department: Department of Psychology
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

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