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Performance of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in Oncopediatric Patients in an Oncology Unit in Cali, Colombia: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Version 1 : Received: 5 February 2024 / Approved: 19 February 2024 / Online: 19 February 2024 (11:52:36 CET)

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Jiménez Urrego, Á.M.; Santa, V.; Guerrero Gómez, M.J.; Guerrero Benitez, A.C.; Romo-González, T.; Botero Carvajal, A. Performance of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in Oncopediatric Patients in an Oncology Unit in Cali, Colombia: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study. Children 2024, 11, 850, doi:10.3390/children11070850. Jiménez Urrego, Á.M.; Santa, V.; Guerrero Gómez, M.J.; Guerrero Benitez, A.C.; Romo-González, T.; Botero Carvajal, A. Performance of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test in Oncopediatric Patients in an Oncology Unit in Cali, Colombia: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study. Children 2024, 11, 850, doi:10.3390/children11070850.

Abstract

Background: In 2020, the incidence of cancer was 844,778 cases among the population aged 0 to 19 years. Ninety percent of the population under 18 years of age lives in low- and middle-income countries, where cancer survivors report adverse outcomes. disease, which negatively impacts individuals’ general health, emotional state and external factors such as academic performance. Therefore, the objective of this article was to report the performance of the WCST and the sociodemographic characteristics of oncopediatric patients from Cali, Colombia. We report the reliability of the WCST instrument and indicate the association between the type of cancer and executive functioning in patients. Methods: In a cross-sectional observational study, 24 oncopediatric patients were interviewed and evaluated via the WCST. Results: The mean age was 12.08 years (3.98), 20.8% were women, 70.8% had a diagnosis of leukemia, 8 patients had acquired brain deficits, and more than 75% had adequate functioning in terms of the indicators of executive functions. Robust statistics were used to explore the differences between the types of diagnoses and performance in executive functions, and no statistically significant differences were found (p = 0.156). We accumulated evidence that the WCST has a reliable Cronbach's α of 0.804 and that oncopediatric patients without brain deficits had high scores for executive functions (p = 0.002) with a moderate effect size (0.727). Conclusions: The WCST is reliable for discriminating executive function among pediatric cancer patients. The evidence suggests that there are no differences between the types of cancer evaluated and executive functioning in the participants.

Keywords

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test; oncology; neuropsychology assessment; executive function; pediatrics.

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics

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