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The Letter-Number Sequencing Test and its association with potential to work among people with psychotic illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A. Murtagh ,
A.L. Hurley ,
A. Kinsella ,
A. Corvin ,
G. Donohoe ,
M. Gill ,
E. O’Callaghan  and
K.C. Murphy
A. Murtagh*
Affiliation:
St. John of God Hospital Stillorgan, Dublin, Ireland
A.L. Hurley
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland
A. Kinsella
Affiliation:
St. John of God Hospital Stillorgan, Dublin, Ireland
A. Corvin
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Dublin 8, Ireland
G. Donohoe
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Dublin 8, Ireland
M. Gill
Affiliation:
Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Dublin 8, Ireland
E. O’Callaghan
Affiliation:
St. John of God Hospital Stillorgan, Dublin, Ireland
K.C. Murphy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland
*
*Corresponding author. Tel.: +012881781. E-mail address: murtaghalan@hotmail.com (A. Murtagh).
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Abstract

Post hoc analysis of occupational attainment and performance on a standard neurocognitive battery suggests that performance on letter-number sequencing is strongly associated with work attainment. Letter-number sequencing may warrant further investigation as a clinically useful tool to inform decisions around vocational rehabilitation.

Keywords

PsychosisOccupational functioningLetter-number sequencingNeurocognitive function
Type
Short communication
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European Psychiatry , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 101 - 104
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Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2010

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