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Polish Adult Reading Test (PART) – construction of Polish test for estimating the level of premorbid intelligence in schizophrenia
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I Klinika Psychiatrii, Psychoterapii i Wczesnej Interwencji UM w Lublinie
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Zakład Neuropsychiatrii Klinicznej Katedry Psychiatrii UM w Lublinie
Submission date: 2016-02-27
Final revision date: 2016-05-16
Acceptance date: 2016-05-16
Online publication date: 2017-08-29
Publication date: 2017-08-29
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Mariola Stecka
I Klinika Psychiatrii, Psychoterapii i Wczesnej Interwencji Zakład Neuropsychiatrii Klinicznej Katedry Psychiatrii Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Lublinie, Głuska 1, 20-439 Lublin, Polska
Psychiatr Pol 2017;51(4):673-685
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Objectives:
In view of unavailability in Poland of the standardized methods to measure PIQ, the aim of the work was to develop a Polish test to assess the premorbid level of intelligence – PART(Polish AdultReading Test) and to measureits psychometric properties, such as validity, reliability as well as standardization in the group of schizophrenia patients.
Methods:
The principles of PART construction were based on the idea of popular worldwide National Adult Reading Test by Hazel Nelson. The research comprised a group of 122 subjects (65 schizophrenia patients and 57 healthy people), aged 18–60 years, matched for age and gender.
Results:
PART appears to be a method with high internal consistency and reliability measured by test-retest, inter-rater reliability, and the method with acceptable diagnostic and prognostic validity. The standardized procedures of PART have been investigated and described.
Conclusions:
Considering the psychometric values of PART and a short time of its performance, the test may be a useful diagnostic instrument in the assessment of premorbid level of intelligence in a group of schizophrenic patients.