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KMID : 1037320120050020001
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2012 Volume.5 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.16
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Usefulness of Attention Problem and Assessment of Attention in Children with Neurosurgical Diseases
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Kim Kyung-Mi
Shim Kyu-Won
Kim Dong-Seok
Eom So-Yong
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Abstract
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This study is intended to understand and alleviate attention problems of children who visited a neurosurgery department as well as help intervention for treatment by medical teams. It also aims to review usefulness of the instruments to assess attention in the clinical environment by comparing an objective attention test and a parent survey report. An intelligence test and a computerized attention test were administered to 60 children who visited the neurosurgery department and whose intelligence quotient was average or above, and the general attention problem level was measured by a parent survey report for mothers. We found that above 50% of the children who had neurosurgical diseases had attention problems even though they had above average intelligence. The full scale IQ showed a negative correlation with the attention problem. No significant correlation was found between the attention test and sub-domains of the attention area of the intelligence test, implying that there was a limitation to detect attention problems only by an intelligence test. A significant relationship was found between the attention test of the children and the parent survey report, which points to usefulness of administering an attention test together with a parent survey. However, the low concordance rate between the attention test and the parent survey showed that attention problems of children were not detected sensitively by the parent survey, implying that attention problems of children who have neurosurgical diseases and whose intelligence quotient is above average are less revealed by external observation than neurosurgical assessments. Therefore, we support necessity and significance of objective attention tests for accurate evaluation of attention problems.
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KEYWORD
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pediatric neurosurgical disease, attention problem, attention test
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