Efficiency of an Active Rehabilitation Intervention in a Slow-to-Recover Paediatric Population following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study

Table 3

Neuropsychological results.

	Before intervention	After intervention
RAVLT
Trials 1 to 5	47.46 ± 6.18	54.38 ± 7.34		0.004
List B interference	4.76 ±1.59	6.23 ± 1.36		0.083
Immediate	9.77 ± 2.20	11.54 ± 1.90		0.001
Delayed recall	10.08 ± 2.66	11.15 ± 2.27		0.085
Verbal fluency (words)
Phonemic	26.60 ± 7.23	29.60 ± 9.43		0.147
Semantic	37.64 ± 4.24	35.21 ± 4.81		0.080
Semantic switching (total responses	14.50 ± 2.21	11.93 ± 2.62		0.032
Semantic switching (total switching)	13.64 ± 2.37	11.36 ± 2.41		0.059
Digit span
Forward	9.14 ± 1.70	9.29 ± 1.49		0.670
	7.43 ± 1.10	8.64 ± 1.91		0.011
SDMT
Total	53.43 ± 7.59	56.86 ± 9.53		0.063
CPT II
	4.33 ± 3.94	1.18 ± 1.17		0.017
Commission	23.92 ± 10.08	19.81 ± 7.08		0.126
Hit	380.80 ± 56.99	369.48 ± 35.67		0.594
Hit reaction time	6.10 ± 2.66	4.73 ± 1.24		0.110
Variability	10.04 ± 7.23	6.32 ± 1.61		0.424
Detectability	0.42 ± 0.585	0.52 ± 0.33		0.130

statistical difference.
Note: RAVLT, Rey auditory verbal learning test; SDMT, symbol-digit modalities test; CPT, Continuous Performance Task.
on negative ranks.
on positive ranks.