Creating interpretation guidelines for the Hebrew Trail Making Test

B. N. Axelrod; J. Aharon-Peretz; R. Tomer; T. Fisher

doi:10.1207/S15324826AN0703_8

Creating interpretation guidelines for the Hebrew Trail Making Test

B. N. Axelrod, J. Aharon-Peretz, R. Tomer, T. Fisher

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Abstract

The Hebrew language version of the Trail Making Test (TMT; Army Individual Test Battery, 1944) was administered to a group of normal control participants as well as a sample of outpatients approximately 1 year following a head injury. A ratio of TMT-B to TMT-A performance was computed in an effort to establish usable cutting scores for the Hebrew TMT. A ratio of 2.26 was observed to result in 63% sensitivity and 77% specificity for the sample, with positive predictive power of 71% and negative predictive power of 70%. A more stringent cutoff of 3.09 reduced sensitivity (22%) and negative predictive power (44%). In contrast, specificity (97%) and positive predictive power (86%) were greatly improved once the speed of TMT-A performance was also considered. The more conservative cutoff is considered appropriate when a finding is indicative of pathological performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	186-188
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Neuropsychology
Volume	7
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1207/S15324826AN0703_8
State	Published - 2000
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by a research sabbatical sponsored by the John D. Dingell Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Keywords

Hebrew
Neuropsychological assessment
Normative data
Trail Making Test

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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Creating interpretation guidelines for the Hebrew Trail Making Test

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