การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบความแตกต่างของผลการทดสอบเบนเดอร์ วิชวล มอเตอร์ เกสตอลท์ ในผู้ป่วยโรคจิตเภทและบุคคลปกติ / ดวงรัตน์ แผ้วพลสง = A comparative study of Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test’s result between schizophrenia patients and healthy control group / Duangrat Pawpolsong
This cross-sectional analytic study is aimed to assess the differences in the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt test’s result between schizophrenia patients and control group. The sample consisted of 35 schizophrenia patients and 35 ENT patients as control. All had never been diagnosed other mental disorders, physical disorders with CNS involvement. Age and gender had been matched between groups. The information collected consisted of demographic data, differentiate diagnostic scores, characteristics of drawing, and organicity scores of Bender Visual Motor Gestalt test. The test result were interpreted by the consensus of clinical psychologists. The statistical analysis was performed using descriptive analysis and paired t- test. The result found that schizophrenia patients had significantly higher mean of differentiate diagnostic scores than control group. The patients with schizophrenia had significantly more responsed in 2 pathological drawing characters, retrogression and omission, than control. Moreover schizophrenia patients shown higher proportion of some degree of brain pathology than in control. In conclusion, Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test using the scoring system of Mary Louise Marley is able to demonstrate the difference in the answers and test results between schizophrenia patients and control. The result also reflected that patients with schizophrenia have significantly abnormalities in brain function than control. The patient’s performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test could be benefit in following the disorder progression or in prediction the prognosis.