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Neuropsychological functioning as a predictor of employment activity in a longitudinal study of HIV-infected adults contemplating workforce reentry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2009

ROBERT A. CHERNOFF ,
DAVID J. MARTIN ,
DARYL A. SCHROCK  and
MELISSA P. HUY
ROBERT A. CHERNOFF
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
DAVID J. MARTIN*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor–University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
DARYL A. SCHROCK
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor–University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California
MELISSA P. HUY
Affiliation:
The Neurobehavioral Group, Costa Mesa, California
*
*Correspondence and reprint requests to: David J. Martin, Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W. Carson Street, Box 488, Torrance, CA 90509. E-mail: djmartin@ucla.edu
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Abstract

Cognitive deficits are associated with HIV disease, and HIV-related cognitive deficits have been associated with declines in everyday functioning and vocational status. We administered a baseline neuropsychological (NP) test battery designed to assess estimated full-scale IQ, achievement, attention/concentration, executive function, language, mental speed, motor function, nonverbal memory, verbal memory, and visual-spatial function to a sample of 174 disabled, HIV-positive individuals enrolled in a randomized, controlled trial of a vocational-rehabilitation program. We then used these NP scores to predict employment at the end of participants’ study participation, using both hierarchical multiple regression and ordinal logistic regression models. The hierarchical multiple regression analyses did not predict participants’ employment activities at the end of study participation. In the ordinal logistic regression model, executive functioning weakly predicted employment status at the end of study participation and inspection of the predicted classifications revealed that 63% of the participants were incorrectly classified using this model. These results suggest that although predicting workforce reentry from NP testing may be statistically significant, NP testing may be of limited clinical value for informing the workforce reentry of disabled people with HIV who are interested in returning to work. (JINS, 2010, 16, 38–48.)

Keywords

HIV InfectionsVocational rehabilitationUnemploymentNeuropsychological testsLogistic regressionOutcome assessment
Type
Research Articles
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 38 - 48
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2009

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