Prediction of Hospital Discharge of Mental Patients by Psychomotor Performance: Partial Replication of Brooks and Weaver

Abstract

Brooks and Weaver's study of the possibility of predicting successful candidates for psychiatric rehabilitation was partially replicated in a smaller research project. Forty-one chronically ill, hospitalized patients in a state mental hospital were tested on a series of psychomotor tests utilizing the Brooks and Weaver apparatus. The replication was basically successful. The most powerful, single predictor was a Pinboard that was not part of the Brooks and Weaver battery. It is suggested that tests of psychomotor performance might be useful additions to selection procedures for psychiatric rehabilitation programs and that further research would be useful on the relationships between psychomotor performance and rehabilitation.