<div>This scoping review investigates the psychometric properties and applicability of social cognition measures for adults with acquired brain injuries (ABI).</div>
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<div>Three social cognition measures showed metrics appropriate for clinical use for adults with ABI as follows:</div>
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<li>The La Trobe Communication Questionnaire (LCQ) showed good internal consistency for self-report and informant-report and good test-retest reliability.</li>
<li>The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) demonstrated good internal consistency and test-retest reliability, but mixed construct validity.</li>
<li>The Awareness of Social Inference Test (TASIT) showed strong test-retest reliability, strong convergent and divergent validities, and high internal reliability.</li>
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<div>While the Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT) also showed promise, the authors suggest caution when interpreting the results of this tool. The remaining measures highlighted in this scoping review either identified a significant difference between clinical and non-clinical populations or provided normative data. </div>
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<div>Limitations of this review include a lack of stakeholder engagement, heterogeneity of ABI causes and severity, and lack of quality assessment and meta-analysis. Additional research is needed to investigate the magnitude of effect of social cognition measures and the impact of ABI characteristics on the applicability of these assessment tools for adults with ABI.</div>
