Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2022 Oct 19;37(7):1628-1632. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acac044.
The coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic has increased personal protective equipment (PPE) use in medical settings. The current study examined the effect of PPE on a nonverbal measure of neurocognitive functioning.
The Leiter International Performance Scale, Third Edition (Leiter-3) was administered to 125 children between the ages of three and eight. Fifty-nine children were assessed twice without any PPE and 66 were assessed once without and once with PPE. Group differences on composite scores were evaluated using a repeated measures design, accounting for sex, school attendance, socioeconomic status, and HIV status.
Nonverbal IQ scores increased significantly between test administrations for both groups, but no significant interaction between PPE group and scores on Leiter-3 composites was found.
No main effect of PPE on Leiter-3 outcomes was found. These results suggest clinical and research work using a nonverbal neurocognitive assessment can be completed when PPE is required.
2019 年冠状病毒病大流行增加了医疗环境中个人防护设备（PPE）的使用。本研究考察了 PPE 对神经认知功能的非言语测量的影响。
对 125 名 3 至 8 岁的儿童进行了 Leiter 国际绩效量表第三版（Leiter-3）的测试。59 名儿童两次评估时未佩戴任何 PPE，66 名儿童一次评估时未佩戴 PPE，一次评估时佩戴了 PPE。使用重复测量设计，根据性别、上学情况、社会经济地位和 HIV 状况，评估组间复合评分的差异。
两组的非言语智商评分在测试之间均显著增加，但 PPE 组与 Leiter-3 复合评分之间未发现显著交互作用。
未发现 PPE 对 Leiter-3 结果有主要影响。这些结果表明，当需要使用个人防护设备时，可以进行使用非言语神经认知评估的临床和研究工作。
