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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:976-979, November 2006
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Examining the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status: Factor Analytic Studies in an Elderly Sample

Kevin Duff, Ph.D., Douglas R. Langbehn, M.D., Ph.D., Mike R. Schoenberg, Ph.D., David J. Moser, Ph.D., Lyle E. Baade, Ph.D., James Mold, M.D., M.P.H., James G. Scott, Ph.D., and Russell L. Adams, Ph.D.

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (KD, DRL, DJM); Department of Neurology. University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (MRS); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, Kansas (LEB); and Department of Family and Preventive Medicine (JM) and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (JGS, RLA), University at Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Objective: The Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), a recently developed cognitive assessment instrument, has been shown to be useful with a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions, but its factor structure has not been examined.

Method: Using 824 community-dwelling elders, the RBANS was examined with confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses.

Results: The existing structure of the RBANS was not supported; however, a two-factor solution was.

Conclusions: Clinicians and researchers using the RBANS should be cautious when interpreting this measure with its existing structure.

Key Words: RBANS • confirmatory factor analysis • exploratory factor analysis • elderly




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