Theatre Is a Valid Add-On Therapeutic Intervention for Emotional Rehabilitation of Parkinson’s Disease Patients

Table 7

Post hoc analyses of significant interactions obtained in two-way mixed-design ANOVAs [between subjects’ factor: GROUP (theatre; controls); within subjects’ factor: TIME , see Table 5. Data are reported just for those post hoc tests which survived the Bonferroni correction. Asterisk () indicates subscales of Parkinson’s Disease Quality of Life Scale. : differences between the means; : standard deviation of , : confidence interval of . Other abbreviations are as in Table 6.

	Theatre versus theatre					Theatre versus controls
				Cohen’s	p value				Cohen’s	p value
Emotional well-	2.8	0.9	[0.9, 4.7]	0.72	0.005	—	—	—	—	—
	3.3	0.5	[2.2, 4.5]	1.2	<0.001	3.8	1.2	[1.3, 6.4]	1.5	0.005
	1.6	0.5	[0.6, 2.5]	0.63	0.003	—	—	—	—	—
Beck Depression Inventory	4.4	0.5	[3.3, 5.6]	1.07	<0.001	—	—	—	—	—
Apathy Evaluation Scale	4.8	0.9	[2.9, 6.8]	1.18	<0.001	—	—	—	—	—
PDSS	4.3	1.2	[1.8, 6.8]	0.55	0.002	—	—	—	—	—
Stroop test (TR)	2.2	0.5	[1.2, 3.3]	1.71	<0.001	—	—	—	—	—