Chunk #34 — Clinical, Self-Report, and Cognitive Assessments — Cognitive Assessments — The Psychology Experiment Building Language — Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status
The RBANS is a brief, individually administered screening instrument that aids in determining the neuropsychological status of adults aged 20–89 years (84). It has been used in a variety of clinical populations, including depression, dementia, and schizophrenia. The RBANS was developed for the dual process of identifying and characterizing abnormal cognitive decline in older adults and as a screening battery for younger patients. The RBANS gives scaled index scores for five cognitive domains: immediate memory, visuo-spatial/constructional, language, attention, and delayed memory. The RBANS has been demonstrated to have high reliability, test–retest stability, inter-rater reliability, content validity, and construct validity and has been administered in various clinical populations, including schizophrenia, depression, and dementia among others (86, 87).
