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Royal Prince Alfred Prospective Memory Test

Purpose

A brief and easily administered time- and event-based measure of prospective memory designed to assess retention over both long and short intervals.

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Instrument Details

Acronym RPA-ProMem

Area of Assessment

Attention & Working Memory

Assessment Type

Performance Measure

Administration Mode

Paper & Pencil

Cost

Free

Diagnosis/Conditions

  • Brain Injury Recovery

Populations

Number of Items

12

Time to Administer

15-30 minutes

Required Training

No Training

Age Ranges

Adult

18 - 64

years

ICF Domain

Body Function

Measurement Domain

Cognition

Considerations

  • The RPA-ProMem may be particularly useful when repeated assessments are desirable.

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Brain Injury

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Normative Data

Brain Injury: (Radford et al, 2011; n = 20, mean age = 43.6 (13.4) years; mean level of Education 13.7 (3.1) years, patinet groupd composed of various diagnos)

 

Norms for Control and Patient Groups:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Control Group

 

 

Patient Group

 

Measure

Mean (SD)

Range

Mean (SD)

Range

RPA-ProMem Total

10.5 (1.5)

6–12

7.2 (3.3)

0–12

Short-term

5.9 (0.7)

3–6

4.2 (2.1)

0–6

Long-term

4.7 (1.5)

0–6

3.0 (2.3)

0–6

Time-based

5.1 (1.2)

3–6

3.1 (1.7)

0–6

Event-based

5.4 (1.1)

3–6

4.1 (1.9)

0–6

CAPM-Self

1.9 (0.5)

1.2–3.3

2.4 (0.9)

1.3–4.1

CAPM-Other

1.6 (0.4)

1.0–2.4

2.9 (0.6)

2.1–4.1

RPA-ProMem = Royal Prince Alfred Prospective Memory Test

CAPM = Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory

 

 

 

 

Interrater/Intrarater Reliability

Brain Injury: (Radford et al, 2011; n = 20, mean age = 43.6 (13.4) years; mean level of Education 13.7 (3.1) years, patinet groupd composed of various diagnosis, two independant raters assessing the same patient)

  • Excellent inter-rater reliability (ICC = 0.97)

Construct Validity

Brain Injury: (Radford et al, 2011)

Correlations between RPA-ProMem other prospective memory measures Demographics

 

 

 

 

 

Measure

n

Age

Sex

Education

Estimated IQ

RPA-ProMem

20

.59**

-.15

.43

-.07

MIST

20

-.24

.06

.15

-.09

CAPM-Self

20

-.67**

.35

-.46*

-.22

CAPM-Other

15

-.44

-.20

-.09

-.07

EMQ-Self

20

-.60**

.10

-.52*

-.09

*p <.05

**p <.01

 

 

 

 

 

RPA-ProMem = Royal Prince Alfred Prospective Memory Test

MIST = Memory for Intentions Screening Test

CAPM = Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory

EMQ = Everyday Memory Questionnaire

 

 

 

 

 

 

Convergent Validity:

  • Poor correlations between RPA-ProMem and MIST Summary scores (r = -.18)

Performance on the RPA-ProMem was associated with fewer self-reported memory problems on three questionnaires: 

  • Excellent RPA-ProMem and CAPM-Self (r = -0.67)
  • Excellent RPA-ProMem and EMQ (r = -0.62) 
  • Adequate RPA-ProMem and CAPMOther (r = -0.50)