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Sensitivity of the Test of Memory Malingering and the Nonverbal Medical Symptom Validity Test: A Replication Study

2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 18; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09084282.2011.595455

1532-4826

Patrick Armistead‐Jehle, Roger O. Gervais,

Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

The current investigation sought to replicate and extend the findings of Green (in press Green , P. , Flaro , F. , Brockhaus , R. , & Montijo , J. ( in press ). Performance on the WMT, MSVT, & NV-MSVT in children with developmental disabilities and in adults with mild traumatic brain injury . In C. R. Reynolds & A. Horton (Eds.), Detection of malingering during head injury litigation () , 2nd ed. . New York , NY : Plenum Press . [Google Scholar]), which demonstrated superior sensitivity of the Nonverbal Medical Symptom Validity Test (NV-MSVT) relative to the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) in the detection of suboptimal effort during neuropsychological assessment. Nearly twice as many examinees failed the NV-MSVT than the TOMM. Profile analyses of the NV-MSVT demonstrated patterns suggestive of inconsistent effort in those who failed the NV-MSVT but passed the TOMM. A classification analysis employing the Word Memory Test and Medical Symptom Validity Test as external criteria for poor effort showed that the NV-MSVT is substantially more sensitive to poor effort than the TOMM and maintains an acceptable false-positive rate. Overall, results closely matched those of the Green (in press Green , P. , Flaro , F. , Brockhaus , R. , & Montijo , J. ( in press ). Performance on the WMT, MSVT, & NV-MSVT in children with developmental disabilities and in adults with mild traumatic brain injury . In C. R. Reynolds & A. Horton (Eds.), Detection of malingering during head injury litigation () , 2nd ed. . New York , NY : Plenum Press . [Google Scholar]) study and extend the evidence that the NV-MSVT possesses better sensitivity to poor effort than the TOMM.