The formulation and standardisation of a battery of tests of visual-perceptual-motor function for the adult cerebro-vascular accident patient.
Date
1998
Authors
Concha, Marjorie, Eileen
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Abstract
The purpose of this thesis was to construct a comprehensive battery of standardised
tests that was robust in terms of its psychometric characteristics to evaluate visual-perceptual-motor (V-P-M) function in the adult who had suffered a Cerebro-Vascular-
Accident (C.V.A.). This was to meet the need for the occupational therapist to target
specific deficits and thereby to provide an effective treatment to patients. Work done
by the candidate with patients, the literature as well as a review of existing tests
demonstrated the need for such a test battery. Up to this time, tests available do not
meet all the requirements for a reliable and valid assessment tool for adult V-P-M
function. This demanded that the tests compiled for this thesis be based on a sound
theoretical model, supplied information on age related changes in function and had
undergone rigorous psychometric testing. It was also nescessary that normative data
based on information collected from a random sarnote of the population for whom the
test was intended and which would include a wide range of age groups, be collected.
in order to fulfil these requirements the construction of this test battery followed the
eleven steps necessary to produce tests ready for the final stage (step twelve) l.e. the
collection of the normative data. ( Abbreviation abstract )
Description
A thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Keywords
Visual perception, Psychomotor performance, Cardiovascular disorders