Evaluation of executive functions and everyday life for people with severe mental illness: A systematic review

Sivan Regev; Naomi Josman

doi:10.1016/j.scog.2020.100178

Evaluation of executive functions and everyday life for people with severe mental illness: A systematic review

Schizophr Res Cogn. 2020 May 24:21:100178. doi: 10.1016/j.scog.2020.100178. eCollection 2020 Sep.

Authors

Sivan Regev¹, Naomi Josman^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave., Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
² Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave., Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.

Abstract

•Assessment tools have progressed from measuring specific components, to more comprehensive assessments.•Performance-based tools, has the potential to include an EF index as part of the test scoring.•Most researchers either chose short versions of the assessment tools to address the subjects' attentional capacities.•Using more than one evaluation method enabled to draw a more precise picture of the function.

Publication types

Review