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Table 1 Comparative assessment of executive functioning between traumatic brain injured Omani patients having mild cognitive impairment and healthy controls (n = 49)

From: Methylphenidate improves executive functions in patients with traumatic brain injuries: a feasibility trial via the idiographic approach

Instrument

TBI (n = 24)

Control(n = 25)

P-value

Executive Functioning

Total score of Trail Making Test

156.75 ± 76.4

90.16 ± 13.29

< 0.0001

Categories completed from Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

1.50 ± 0.72

3.72 ± 0.46

< 0.0001

Perseverative errors from Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

17.42 ± 6.14

3.12 ± 3.44

< 0.0001

Tower of London

10.00 ± 4.86

19.64 ± 5.35

< 0.0001

  1. Analyses were conducted using student’s t-test