Montreal Communication Evaluation Brief Battery – MEC B: reliability and validity
ABSTRACT Purpose Search for reliability and validity evidence for the Montreal Communication Evaluation Brief Battery (MEC B) for adults with right brain damage. Methods Three hundred twenty-four healthy adults and 26 adults with right brain damage, aged 19-75 years, with two or more years of education were evaluated with MEC B. The MEC B Battery contains nine tasks that aim to evaluate communicative abilities as discourse, prosody, lexical-semantic and pragmatic process. Two sources of reliability evidence were used: internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) and interrater reliability. Construct validity was evaluated comparing the Montreal Communication Evaluation Battery (MEC), expanded version and MEC B tasks. Results Internal consistence was satisfactory and the interrater reliability was considered excellent, as were correlations between MEC Battery and MEC B Battery tasks. Conclusion The MEC B Battery showed satisfactory reliability and validity evidences. It can be used as outcome measure of intervention programs and assist speech therapists to plan rehabilitation programs.
Main Authors: | Casarin,Fabíola Schwengber, Pagliarin,Karina Carlesso, Altmann,Raira Fernanda, Parente,Maria Alice de Mattos Pimenta, Ferré,Perrine, Côté,Hélène, Ska,Bernardette, Joanette,Yves, Fonseca,Rochele Paz |
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Format: | Digital revista |
Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Fonoaudiologia
2020
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Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2317-17822020000100301 |
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