Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Color Trails Test (CTT) in the Turkish patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.Methods: The study was carried out with a sample of 47 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia according to the DSM-IV and to 20 healthy individuals (controls) who were matched for age, sex and education. The CTT, Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) and Verbal Fluency Test (VFT) has been applied to all subjects.Results: Criterion related validity of the C7T (1 and 2) was shown with significant correlation between all administered test and suhtest. Regarding validity of discriminating power for specific groups, the CTT showed that schizophrenic individuals pe ıformed signifı" cantly worse than healthy controls (z:-4.515, p
Key words: Schizophrenia, color trails test, frontal assessment, reliability, validity
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