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OBJECTIVE To examine convergent validity of the Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT) by determining correlation with established neuropsychological tests, administered an average of 4.4 days apart, in an inpatient traumatic brain injury (TBI) population. SETTING Acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-five patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation for new-onset TBI (69.1% male; mean age = 37 years, SD = 14 years). DESIGN Cross-sectional, secondary data analysis. MAIN MEASURES BTACT; California Verbal Learning Test-second edition (CVLT-2); Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV) Digit Span; Trail Making Test; semantic fluency; phonemic fluency; Symbol Digit Modalities Test; Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. RESULTS The BTACT was significantly associated with established neuropsychological tests across composite scores of overall cognition (r = 0.64, P < .001), episodic verbal memory (r = 0.66, P < .001), and executive function (r = 0.56, P < .001). For BTACT subtests, Word List Immediate Recall and Word List Delayed Recall were correlated with CVLT-2 learning trials total score (r = 0.57, P < .01) and long delay free recall (r = 0.60, P < .001), respectively. BTACT Digits Backward correlated with WAIS-IV Digit Span (r = 0.51, P < .01). BTACT Animal Fluency was associated with semantic fluency (r = 0.65, P < .01), phonemic fluency (r = 0.60, P < .01), and Trail Making Test Part B (r = 0.39, P < .01). CONCLUSION BTACT composite scores of overall cognition, verbal memory, and executive function demonstrate initial convergent validity in a TBI inpatient population. Future research should examine validity in a larger sample of individuals with TBI.

OBJECTIVE. To create a larger, more representative community comparison sample of the Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone (BTACT) data to facilitate assessment of cognitive function in research studies. SETTING. National U.S. community-based survey. PARTICIPANTS. 6,747 healthy adults aged 23 to 84 years (53% female; mean age = 55 years [SD = 13]). DESIGN. Secondary data analysis of BTACT data collected from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) II and MIDUS Refresher cohorts. MAIN MEASURES. The Brief Test of Adult Cognition by Telephone, a brief (15–20 minute) measure of global cognitive function validated for telephone administration. RESULTS. This paper provides BTACT community comparison sample data based on age, sex, and education from a national sample. Similar to other cognitive measures, BTACT scores decreased with age and increased with education. CONCLUSIONS. The BTACT community comparison sample will facilitate investigation of cognitive functioning in large scale traumatic brain injury research studies, and will support secondary analysis of existing BTACT data gathered through the MIDUS study.