UCSD SORT Test (U-SORT) Examination of a Newly Developed Organizational Skills Assessment Tool for Severely Mentally Ill Adults

作者：Tiznado Denisse; Mau**ach Brent T^*; Cardenas Veronica; Jeste Dilip V; Patterson Thomas L

来源：Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2010, 198(12): 916-919.

DOI：10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181fe75b6

• Organizational skills
• performance-based tests
• schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder
• functional capacity

The present investigation examined the validity of a new cognitive test intended to assess organizational skills. Participants were 180 middle-aged or older participants with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Participants' organizational skills were measured using our newly developed University of California, San Diego Sorting Test (U-SORT), a performance-based test of organizational ability in which subjects sort objects (e.g., battery, pens) from a "junk drawer" into "keep" versus "trash" piles. Significant correlations between U-SORT scores and theoretically similar constructs (i.e. functional capacity, cognitive functioning, and clinical symptoms) were acceptable (mean r = 0.34), and weak correlations were found between U-SORT scores and theoretically dissimilar constructs (e.g., health symptoms, social support, gender; mean r = 0.06). The correlation between assessment scores provides preliminary support for the U-SORT test as a brief, easily transportable, reliable, and valid measure of functioning for this population.

• 出版日期2010-12