Evaluación de las habilidades de la Corteza prefrontal: La Escala EFECo II-VC y II-VR

Carla Villegas, Dorys Ortiz, Andrés García, Mónica Bolaños, Pamela Acosta, Nancy Lepe, Milenko Del Valle, Valentina Ramos, Carlos Ramos-Galarza

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Resumen

The pre-frontal cortex is the basis of the most complex mental abilities of human development. In its evaluation process, the EFECO scale provides an important contribution to assess its status. In previous investigations this scale has been studied with its configuration of 67 items, narrative focused on the deficit and evaluation of 8 executive functions. This research presents a new version of the scale, centered on its narrative in executive ability, proposed items to assess executive verification function and a summarized version of 42 items. The study included 118 healthy adults between 18 and 25 years of age (Mage = 20.72, SD = 1.65). In the results it was found that the EFECO II-VC scale (modified and complete version) obtained as internal consistency α = .96 and its sub-scales internal consistency between α = .64 and .81. The EFECO II-VR scale (modified and summarized version) obtained α = .94 and its sub-scales between α = .68 and .79. The internal consistency of the factors in which the executive functions are included were adequate: the supervisory system of cognition II-VC α = .93 and II-VR α = .70, while the supervisor system of behavior II- VC α = .93 and II-VR α = .81. The correlations between the executive functions assessed with both scales were between medium and large r = .36 and .94. The work is closed discussing the clinical and scientific contribution of the modification of the EFECO scale.

Título traducido de la contribuciónEvaluation of the skills of the prefrontal cortex: The EFECO II-VC and II-VR
Idioma originalEspañol
Páginas (desde-hasta)36-42
Número de páginas7
PublicaciónRevista Ecuatoriana de Neurologia
Volumen27
N.º3
EstadoPublicada - 2018

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Palabras clave

  • EFECO scale
  • Executive functions
  • Neuropsychological evaluation
  • Prefrontal cortex

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