Factor structure of cognitive performance and functional capacity in schizophrenia: Evidence for differences across functional capacity measures

The Ethiopian Cognitive Assessment battery in Schizophrenia (ECAS): a validation study

“…This demonstrated that the battery measures a dominant factor accounting for the different domains of cognitive impairment. This aligns with previous studies showing that a dominant cognitive factor could account for domains of cognition impaired in PWS 52 – 55 . This suggests using the composite score of ECAS, as we previously put forward 12 .…”

Virtual reality in the diagnostic and therapy for mental disorders: A systematic review

“…Four of these, administered and validated a new "VR functional capacity assessment tool" (VRFCAT) that confronts participants to various routine tasks of daily living. Important outcomes were that patients with a SSD performed significantly worse in most of the administered subtasks (Ruse et al, 2014;Ventura et al, 2020), that the VRFCAT correlated with other functional performance tests (Lindenmayer et al, 2020;Ruse et al, 2014;Ventura et al, 2020) and that it showed a similar factor structure in SSD patients than HC (Harvey et al, 2020). Two further VR-based assessment tools were reported for the detection of prospective memory problems (Man et al, 2018) and a general cognitive assessment (Miskowiak et al, 2021), both of which correlated with existing neuropsychological tests.…”

Computer‐based virtual reality assessment of functional capacity in primary psychosis

“…The VRFCAT and MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) scores are empirically correlated but separable, as evidenced by a robust 2-factor solution in the combined factor analyses of these measures, which improved on the fit of a unifactorial model 8 . In contrast, combined factor analyses confirm that the MCCB and the UPSA would be best described by a joint unifactorial solution.…”