Donders Jacobus
Mary Free Bed Hospital , Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503, USA.
Child Neuropsychol. 2005 Apr;11(2):221-7. doi: 10.1080/09297040490917298.
Performance on the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) was evaluated in a sample of 100 consecutively referred 6 to 16-year-old children with a wide range of clinical diagnoses. In the complete sample, 97 children met actuarially defined criteria for sufficient effort on the TOMM. Two children were correctly identified as providing suboptimal effort and only one case was a possible false positive. Performance on the second trial of the TOMM did not vary with gender, ethnicity, parental occupation, performance on an independent memory test, or length of coma. Although younger children tended to be somewhat less efficient on the TOMM than older children, more than 90% of children in the 6-8 years range met criteria originally developed for adults for sufficient effort on the TOMM. It is concluded that the TOMM is a potentially useful measure of effort in the clinical neuropsychological evaluation of school-age children.
在一项针对100名年龄在6至16岁、临床诊断范围广泛的连续转诊儿童样本中，对记忆伪装测验（TOMM）的表现进行了评估。在整个样本中，97名儿童在TOMM上达到了根据统计数据定义的足够努力的标准。两名儿童被正确识别为努力程度欠佳，只有一例可能为假阳性。TOMM第二次试验的表现与性别、种族、父母职业、独立记忆测试的表现或昏迷时长无关。尽管年幼儿童在TOMM上的效率往往比年长儿童略低，但6至8岁年龄段超过90%的儿童达到了最初为成年人制定的在TOMM上足够努力的标准。结论是，TOMM在学龄儿童临床神经心理学评估中是一种潜在有用的努力程度测量方法。
