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Table 2 Neuropsychological assessment data for healthy controls and patients

From: A one-year follow-up study of the Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) and the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (PASAT) in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: an appraisal of comparative longitudinal sensitivity

 

Healthy controls

Patients

p value

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

SRT-Storage

50.9 (8.8)

45.9 (13.6)

0.001*

SRT-Retrieval

43.2 (11.1)

37.1 (13.9)

0.002*

SRT-Delayed

9.7 (1.7)

8.7 (2.4)

0.003*

10/36

22.5 (4.5)

20.6 (5.2)

0.015*

10/36 delayed

8.0 (1.9)

7.3 (2.2)

0.017*

SDMT

63.7 (8.6)

54.3 (13.4)

<0.001*

PASAT 3 seconds

48.6 (8.3)

44.8 (11.4)

0.005*

PASAT 2 seconds

39.3 (7.3)

36.2 (10.3)

0.086

Semantic verbal fluency

21.5 (3.8)

19.1 (4.4)

<0.001*

Phonetic verbal fluency

17.2 (3.6)

14.7 (4.3)

<0.001*

STROOP word

44.7 (9.5)

40.6 (8.7)

0.003*

STROOP color

46.9 (8.0)

42.0 (8.3)

0.001*

STROOP word-color

49.8 (9.2)

44.9 (9.2)

0.001*

STROOP interference

53.3 (9.0)

52.1 (8.2)

0.323

WCST perseverative errors

12.2 (17.2)

14.0 (12.5)

0.383

WCST no perseverative errors

18.1 (8.4)

18.8 (9.6)

0.585

WCST categories

5.3 (1.1)

4.8 (1.7)

0.025*

Line orientation test

26.5 (2.6)

25.1 (3.3)

0.004*

WAIS matrix subtest

11.6 (2.5)

10.3 (2.4)

<0.001*

RBMT

10.2 (1.3)

9.6 (1.8)

0.021*

FSS

2.2 (0.9)

3.7 (2.0)

<0.001*

BDI

3.7 (3.7)

9.1 (7.6)

<0.001*

  1. *p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.