Yen-Hsuan Hsu

Publications (2)4.36 Total impact

• Article: Cross-cultural Effect on Suboptimal Effort Detection: An Example of the Digit Span Subtest of the WAIS-III in Taiwan.

  Cheng-Chang Yang, Chen-Jay Kao, Ting-Wen Cheng, Chi-Cheng Yang, Wei-Han Wang, Rwei-Ling Yu, Yen-Hsuan Hsu, Mau-Sun Hua
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  ABSTRACT: Suppressed Digit Span performance has been proposed as an embedded indicator for suboptimal effort detection in neuropsychological evaluations in Western societies, particularly in the USA. However, its effectiveness in Chinese countries remains unexplored. The purposes of this study were first to explore normative Digit Span performance patterns between the Taiwan and American standardization samples, then to examine performances of patients with traumatic brain injury and with psychiatric diseases on the embedded measures (the Digit Span Scaled Score, Vocabulary minus Digit Span difference score, Reliable Digit Span, and the longest string of digits forward and backward) through retrospective data analysis. The normative Digit Span performance differs between the two cultural populations. Although litigating and nonlitigating participants perform differently on these measures, further prospective studies are needed to explore this issue with comprehensive external corroborating validity data.
  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 09/2012; · 2.18 Impact Factor
• Article: Taiwan version of the prospective and retrospective memory questionnaire: latent structure and normative data.

  Yen-Hsuan Hsu, Mau-Sun Hua
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  ABSTRACT: The Prospective and Retrospective Memory Questionnaire (PRMQ) has been reported to have acceptable reliability and a tripartite structure, including a general memory factor and specific Prospective and Retrospective Memory factors. The Taiwanese version of the PRMQ was examined in an adult sample (n = 269, age range: 19-95). The 11-item Taiwanese PRMQ demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.82-0.90) as well as a tripartite structure with one general Episodic Memory factor and one specific Prospective Memory factor. There was no gender effect, but older adults reported better prospective memory performance, and individuals with a higher level of education rated less retrospective memory failure. Preliminary Taiwanese normative data are also presented.
  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 03/2011; 26(3):240-9. · 2.18 Impact Factor