The Wichita Program: Follow-up Studies

Abstract

The clients who completed the rehabilitation program were followed up from 6 months to 1 year after their final assessment with the Halstead-Reitan Battery. A few of them were lost to the follow-up procedures, and so we were able to secure information on only 16 program participants and 6 of the subjects who did not receive any formal rehabilitation during the 6-month interim period between the two testing sessions. The general purpose of the follow-up was to determine if there was any differential improvement in the adjustment level of the subjects who did and did not go through the program. As indicated in Chapter 6, program subjects showed significantly more improvement in their test scores than the control subjects. The follow-up represented an attempt to learn if the superior test performance was correlated with superior adjustment to the environment. However, any findings derived from these studies must be taken cautiously in view of the very limited number of control subjects.