Beneficial Effect of Multidomain Cognitive Training on the Neuropsychological Performance of Patients with Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease

Table 3

Mean score, standard deviation, value, and pre- and postassessment in the control and training groups.

	Control group			Training group
	Preassessment	Postassessment	value	Preassessment	Postassessment	value
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)
Recall	16.60 (3.26)	16.20 (2.45)	0.33^b	17.44 (3.66)	18.16 (3.48)	0.151^b
Delayed memory	0.40 (0.50)	0.12 (0.33)	0.08 ^b	0.16 (0.37)	1.20 (1.08)	≤0.001 ^b
Word recognition	18.40 (1.25)	17.96 (1.48)	0.20^b	18.08 (1.32)	18.68 (1.28)	0.028^b
BNT	11.64 (1.32)	11.40 (1.30)	0.22^b	11.84 (1.57)	13.40 (1.04)	≤0.001 ^b
SF	23.36 (7.44)	22.16 (6.31)	0.13^b	22.12 (6.05)	28.16 (6.08)	≤0.001 ^a
CDT	9.72 (1.93)	9.52 (1.36)	0.24^b	8.96 (2.22)	10.28 (2.59)	0.01 ^a
DSF	5.04 (0.93)	4.88 (1.13)	0.35^b	5.48 (0.71)	6.60 (1.35)	≤0.001^b
DSB	3.36 (0.81)	3.32 (0.98)	0.80^b	3.68 (0.75)	4.32 (0.75)	0.001^b
TMT A	177.56 (56.02)	210.16 (66.58)	0.01 ^b	177.24 (45.88)	151.80 (39.48)	≤0.001^b
TMT B	297.84 (10.80)	299.00 (5.00)	0.32^b	300 (00.00)	290.60 (24.67)	0.017^b

BNT: Boston Naming Test; SF: semantic fluency; CDT: clock-drawing test; DSF: digit span forward; DSΒ: digit span backward; TMT A: trail-making test A; TMT B: trail-making test B; ^apaired sample t-test; ^bWilcoxon signed-rank test.