Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Update
RBANS Update
Offering valuable enhancements, the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status Update® (RBANS® Update) is a brief, individually administered battery to measure cognitive decline or improvement. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice.- Age range:
- 12:0 - 89:11 years
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Qualification level:
- B
- Completion time:
- 30 minutes
- Administration:
- Digital or Paper-and-pencil
- Scores/Interpretation:
- Index standard scores, sub-test standard scores, total score
- Scoring options:
- Q-interactive® Administration and Scoring or Manual Scoring
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
Although RBANS Update was originally developed with a primary focus on assessment of dementia, special group studies are available for Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia, HIV Dementia, Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Depression, Schizophrenia, and Closed Head Injury. RBANS also has utility as a screener for neurocognitive status in younger patients.
Benefits
- Covers five domains: Immediate Memory, Visuospatial/Constructional, Language, Attention, and Delayed Memory.
- Screen for deficits in acute-care setting and neurocognitive status in adolescents.
- Track recovery during rehabilitation and progression of neurological disorders.
- Use as a stand-alone “core” battery for the detection and characterization of dementia in the elderly
- Use as a neuropsychological “screen battery” when lengthier standardization assessments are either impractical or inappropriate
- Repeat evaluations when an alternate form is needed to control for content practice effects.
- Identify inclusion/exclusion criteria as well as efficacy and cognitive side effects in Clinical Trials.
Features
RBANS Update provides significant improvements and is ideal for measuring change over time. It can serve as a neuropsychological “screen battery” when lengthier standardization assessments are either impractical or inappropriate.
- Downward age extended to 12:0 years.
- Four parallel forms: Form A offers a single set of norms based on age, gender, race, education, and geographic region, with equating studies and adjustments for Forms B-D and Spanish Form A.
- Subtest scores now available in addition to index scores.
- Manual updated, including new information on adolescents and a review of RBANS-specific research conducted since original publication.
Tests in the RBANS Update harness the processing capacities of Q-interactive to provide new, more dynamic, cognitively demanding tasks that are unable to be delivered and scored with fidelity in a traditional paper format.
Test Components
Required items for administering RBANS Update on Q-interactive:
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Existing Users
If you have an active Q-interactive license, RBANS Update will be automatically added to your account.
