Table 3 Adjusted mean scores on semantic and phonemic verbal fluency measures for all tumour patients and DACT patients
Patients (N = 180) | Controls (N = 90) | Mean diff (95% CI) | p value | Effect Size (Cohen’s d) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Verbal fluency, mean (SE) | |||||
Animals | |||||
Total | 12.6 (5.21) | 17.7 (5.21) | -5.1 (-6.32,—3.77) | < 0.001 | -0.98 |
Mean cluster | 1.1 (0.94) | 1.7 (0.85) | -0.55 (-0.79, -0.32) | < 0.001 | -0.62 |
Switch | 5.6 (3.22) | 6.9 (3.22) | -1.29 (-2.1,—0.46) | 0.002 | -0.4 |
Letter P | |||||
Total | 8.45 (4.61) | 10.99 (4.62) | -2.53 (-3.7, -1.35) | < 0.001 | -0.55 |
Mean cluster | 0.29 (0.41) | 0.4 (0.38) | -0.11 (-0.21, -0.01) | 0.025 | -0.28 |
Switch | 6.38 (3.94) | 7.68 (3.95) | -1.29 (-2.3, -0.29) | 0.012 | -0.33 |