Two Ecological Tools for Testing Slowness of Information Processing in Italian Patients with Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Author:

Valentini Federica12,Fabio Valentina12,Boccia Maddalena13,Tanzilli Antonio34,Iannetti Manuela5,Cinelli Maria Cristina3,De Angelis Carmela12,Fasotti Luciano67,Formisano Rita5,Guariglia Cecilia12,Ciurli Maria Paola2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy

2. Neuropsychology Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00179 Rome, Italy

3. Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation and Neuroimaging Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00179 Rome, Italy

4. Neuro-Oncology Unit, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, 00144 Rome, Italy

5. Neurorehabilitation 2 and Post-coma Unit, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, 00179 Rome, Italy

6. Rehabilitation Medical Centre Groot Klimmendaal, 6813 Arnhem, The Netherlands

7. Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, 6525 Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract

Abstract Slowness of Information Processing (SIP) is frequently experienced after traumatic brain injury (TBI); however, the impact of SIP on everyday functioning may be underestimated by standard neuropsychological tests. Objective: we aimed to adapt two ecological instruments assessing SIP in Italian patients with moderate-to-severe TBI, as formerly proposed by Winkens and colleagues for persons with stroke, testing also its possible relation with other neuropsychological processes and functional outcomes. Method: we performed an observational study on 37 patients with moderate-to-severe TBI and 35 demographically matched healthy controls, who underwent the Mental Slowness Observation Test (MSOT) and the Mental Slowness Questionnaire (MSQ), which had been adapted through a pilot study on independent sample of participants; extensive neuropsychological and functional evaluations were performed as well. Results: We found good clinical and psychometric properties of the Italian adaptation of the MSOT and MSQ; also, performance on MSOT significantly correlated with executive functions. Moreover, patients with TBI are significantly slower and less accurate than healthy controls on the MSOT, in particular in tasks with time limits. Even if the subjective feeling of SIP does not differ between patients and controls, we found a significant correlation between MSQ and MSOT. Finally, the performances on the MSOT correlated with measures of functional outcome and community integration. Conclusions: the results support the use of the MSOT and the MSQ to measure SIP in an ecological fashion in patients with TBI, so that specific treatments for persons with acquired brain injury can be prescribed.

Funder

Ministry of Health

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology,General Medicine

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