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Professional Resources and Technologies (PRT) has published tests, checklists, and questionnaires since 1999. Our mission has been to provide cost-effective measures for clinical and research applications.
The Neurobehavioral History Questionnaire provides a structured means of obtaining a clinical history and it has been positively peer-reviewed. The Neurobehavioral Signs and Symptoms checklists serve as valuable tools for obtaining current and prior impairments enabling differentiation from pre-existing problems from current problems. The Illness Index provides a measure of health-related quality of life. Several publications attest to its usefulness as an outcome measure in rehab programs and its sensitivity to depression and mortality (e.g., in ESRD). The Tens Test measures sustained auditory concentration and is a more tolerable alternative to the PASAT. The Bicycle Drawing Test is an experimental measure that provides two structured scoring systems to assess the quality of a bicycle drawing from memory and a copy of a bicycle model.
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Neurobehavioral History Questionnaires
Neurobehavioral Signs and Symptoms checklists
The Neurobehavioral History questionnaires offer comprehensive and organized methods of gathering important patient information that should be part of every clinical assessment. Details about the patient's background are essential in medico-legal cases where the thoroughness of your assessment should be documented.
The Neurobehavioral Signs and Symptoms checklists systematically organize presenting concerns and compare them to past functioning. This approach ensures that impaired prior functioning problems are not mistaken for acquired deficits. Both adult and child forms include a section addressing the potential for over-reporting by presenting implausible symptoms.
The Illness Index Measures
The Illness Index questionnaires elicit appraisals from patients, informants (such as spouses), and healthcare professionals regarding the biopsychosocial impact of a disease or injury. These assessments enable the measurement of individuals’ perspectives on Health-Related Quality of Life. By comparing illness profiles across multiple informants, a robust method is developed for generating hypotheses about patient behavior.
Questionnaires are available for the patient, family member and healthcare provider. Short form versions of the patient and healthcare provider questionnaire are now available that lend themselves to rapid assessments. An Excel (c) scoring form is available to compare the questionnaire information.
NEW: The Illness Index are also available via digital administration at Psypack.com
The Tens Test
The Tens Test is a measure of auditory sustained and selective auditory attention that provides an indication of the examinees ability to sustain attention over 8 minutes, their degree of impulsivity and capability to manage increasingly quicker working memory and processing demands.
The Bicycle Drawing Test
The BDT is a revision of the scoring system by Greenberg et al. (Revised Scoring, Reliability, and Validity Investigations of The Bicycle Drawing Test, Assessment March 1994 vol. 1 no. 1 89-101) with a new copy phase. This research visuomotor measure offers a structured system to evaluate the ability to reproduce a real object. The mechanical nature of the bicycle allows for assessment of nonverbal reasoning skills.
