Clinical Study

Verbal Comprehension Ability in Aphasia: Demographic and Lexical Knowledge Effects

Table 3

Performance of patients presenting with and without comprehension deficits and controls on the demographically adjusted CIG, PPVT-R, and CIG-PPVT-R difference scores.

Individuals with aphasia: comprehension rating
Controls ( )Impaired ( )Nonimpaired ( )

CIG
 Raw (mean, SD) 10.29 (2.70) 0.63 (0.92) 3.81 (4.11)
(mean, SD) 0.07 (0.95) −1.79 (0.03)−1.57 (0.34)
 Range−1.83 to 1.43 −1.86 to −1.75 −1.80 to −0.84

PPVT-R
 Raw (mean, SD) 151.03 (21.08) 87.18 (35.53)**136.36 (18.85)
(mean, SD) 0.06 (0.96)−1.61 (0.18)−0.99 (1.00)
 Range −1.75 to 1.63 −1.75 to −1.11−1.68 to 1.47

Simple algebraic difference

CIG-PPVT difference score
(mean, SD) 0.01 (1.10)−0.17 (0.19)*−0.57 (0.72)
 Range −3.34 to 2.95 −0.73 to −0.05 −2.31 to 2.07

Payne and Jones' [27] method

CIG-PPVT difference score
(mean, SD)0.013 (1.22)−0.19 (0.22)−0.36 (1.17)
 Range−3.70 to 3.26−0.81 to −0.05−2.56 to 2.29

Patient group differences: *P = .02, **P = .01.