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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ear Hear. 2015 Jul-Aug;36(4):395–407. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000142

Table 3.

Descriptions of Outcome Measures

Measure Name Cognitive Domain Data
Digit Symbol Substitution (Tun et al. 1997;
Wechsler 1981)
Speed of processing Number correct
Digit Symbol Copy (Wechsler 1981) Speed of processing Total time to complete task in s
Trail Making Test Part A (Reitan and Wolfson 1985,
1993)
Speed of processing Total time to complete task in s
Letter and Pattern Comparison (Salthouse and Babcock 1991) Speed of processing Sum of correctly identified pairs
Useful Field of View® (UFOV; Edwards, Vance, et al. 2005) Speed of processing Threshold display speed in ms across
four subtests
Trail Making Test Part B (Reitan and Wolfson 1985,
1993)
Executive function;
inhibition; set-
shifting
Total time to complete task in s (480 s
max.)
Stroop Color Word Test (Trenerry et al. 1989) Executive function;
inhibition
Completion reaction time difference
in s between ink color naming and
color block naming tasks, adjusted for
number of uncorrected mistakes
during color naming task
Digit Span (Wechsler 1987) Memory (verbal
memory span)
Number of series correctly repeated
Spatial Span (Wechsler 1987) Memory (visual-
spatial memory
span)
Number of series correctly replicated
Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT; Brandt 1991) Memory (verbal
episodic)
Total number of words recalled across
three free recall trials
Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE; Cockrell et al. 1987;
Folstein et al. 1975)
Global screening
measure of mental
status
Total points out of 30 possible. Items
screen orientation, registration, recall,
calculation, attention, naming,
repetition, comprehension, reading,
writing, and drawing abstraction