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Table 1 Instruments used for the assessment of the neuromotor and cognitive domains of the 7-year-old children participating in the Danish High Risk and Resilience Study-VIA 7

From: The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 7 - a cohort study of 520 7-year-old children born of parents diagnosed with either schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or neither of these two mental disorders

Domains

Subdomains

Child

Caregiver

Teacher

Neuromotor and physical measures

Motor development and milestones

Movement ABC [84]

Anamnestic interview (always including biological mother if possible)

 
 

do

Height, weight, head circumference, arm span

  
 

Motor speed and dexterity

Finger tapping [82]

  

Grooved Pegboard [83]

 

Minor physical anomalies (MPAs)

Waldrop Scale [103], 3D photo

  

Cognition

Verbal memory and visual memory

Word Selective Reminding and Memory for Stories from Tomal-2 [85], RCFT: Rey Complex Figure Test and Recognition Trial [86]

  
 

Attention

RVP (rapid visual information processing; 3-5-7 mode) from CANTAB [88]. Conners CPT (Continuous Performance Test [96])

  
 

Receptive and expressive language (incl. grammar and pragmatic aspects)

TROG-II (Test for Reception of Grammar, [93])

 

CCC (Children’s Communication Checklist-II [112])

 

Speed of Processing

Verbal Fluency and Trails A/B from D-KEFS [91]

  

Symbol Search, and Coding subtest from WISC-IV [90]

 

Executive functions (planning and flexibility)

SOC (Stockings of Cambridge) and IED (Intra-Extra Dimensional Shift test) from CANTAB [88].

  
 

Executive functions (visual and verbal working memory)

SSP (Spatial Span) and SWM (Spatial Working Memory) from CANTAB [88] + Letter-number Sequencing and Arithmetic from WISC-IV [90].

  
 

Executive functions (error monitoring)

Flanker Task [97].

  
 

Social cognition

Revised Happe’s Strange Stories [100], Animated Triangles [101] and ERT (Emotion Recognition Task) from CANTAB [88]

  
 

Intelligence

RIST (Reynolds Intellectual Screening Test [92])

  
 

Visual selective attention and perceptual speed

Visual Attention Battery from University of Copenhagen [99]

  
 

Smell identification

B-SIT (Brief Smell Identification Test, [94])

  
 

Imagination/creativity

Pattern Meanings [95]

  
 

Decision making

CGT (Cambridge Gambling Task) from CANTAB [88]