Stručni rad
Quantity and Quality Analysis of the Benton Visual Retention Test Results in Patients with Brain Damage
Anela NIKČEVIĆ-MILKOVIĆ
Meri TADINAC-BABIĆ
Valerija HAUPTFELD
Sažetak
The aims of this paper are: first: to examine whether Benton
Visual Retention Test can be applied not only in diagnosing
visual-perceptive, mnemonic and construction deficit, but
also in differential diagnostics in patients with brain damage
of different ethiology (traumas, tumors, vascular disorders)
and different lateralization of lesions (left and right brain hemisphere), and second: to find out whether there are
some differences in the test results regarding the sex of the
tested persons. Having carried out individual tests on 95
patients with brain damage caused by trauma, cancer or
vascular disorders in the KBC “Rebro”, we have applied
three criteria in the evaluation of the test results: the number
of correct answers, total number of errors, and the type of
errors. Based on a multiple ANOVA (2x2x3, lateralization of
damage x sex x type of brain damage), it has been
determined that there are no significant F-rates for the two
variables: number of correct answers and number of errors.
No significant main effects of the diagnostic categories
lateralization of lesion and sex have been observed. The
analysis of the type of errors shows only one significant Fratio
(F=5.639, p=0.020) in perseveration errors. More
perseveration errors have been observed in patients with
lesions in the left hemisphere (ML =1.08) than in patients
with lesions in the right hemisphere (MD =0.62). No other
main effects and no other interactions have been found to be
significant. The obtained results lead to the conclusion that
Benton Visual Retention Test can be recommended for
diagnostics of deficiencies in the functions it examines, but it
should not be applied for differential diagnostics, nor does it
allow conclusions about the lateralization of lesions.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
20305
URI
Datum izdavanja:
28.2.2000.
Posjeta: 2.486 *