Research Article
Beneficial Effect of Multidomain Cognitive Training on the Neuropsychological Performance of Patients with Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the training and control groups at baseline.
| | Training group () | Control group () | value |
| | Gender | | | | | Males, (%) | 9 (0.36) | 5 (0.20) | 0.345a | | Females, (%) | 16 (0.64) | 20 (0.80) | | | Years of schooling, mean (SD) | 8.08 (±3.01) | 8.92 (±2.83) | 0.238b | | Age (years), mean (SD) | 76.24 (±5.14) | 76.32 (±5.38) | 0.838b | | GDS (score), mean (SD) | 2.40 (±1.61) | 3.28 (±2.30) | 0.202b | | MoCA (score), mean (SD) | 16.76 (±1.33) | 16.00 (±1.56) | 0.108b | | IADL (score), mean (SD) | 13.60 (±2.10) | 12.64 (±1.57) | 0.102b |
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GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; IADL: Instrumental Activities of Daily Living; achi-square test; bMann–Whitney U test.
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