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Table 4 Significant F test for between groups accordingly to three quadrants of MMSE within educated (N = 106)

From: A model of cognitive evaluation battery for diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in educated and illiterate Egyptian elderly people

Variable

Lower (dementia)

Mediate (MCI)

Upper (normals)

F value

Post hoc (LSD)

Mean

Std. Dev.

Mean

Std. Dev.

Mean

Std. Dev.

Semantic fluency

8.44

6.64

10.02

3.84

18.95

5.60

40.5***

3>1&2

VL total

9.80

3.86

13.78

4.59

22.98

3.92

84.2***

3>1&2

VL total easy

9.60

3.84

12.49

3.39

16.86

1.37

49.8***

3>2>1

VL total hard

0.20

0.62

1.29

1.87

6.12

3.27

55.8***

3>1&2

VL 1st trial

2.80

1.44

3.73

2.09

6.29

1.76

31.6***

3>1&2

VL 1st trial easy

2.80

1.44

3.44

1.67

4.95

1.13

19.5***

3>1&2

VL 1st trial hard

0.00

0.00

0.29

0.72

1.33

1.10

23.8***

3>1&2

VL 2nd trial

3.20

1.36

4.95

1.64

8.10

1.23

94.1***

3>2>1

VL 2nd trial easy

3.20

1.36

4.44

1.23

5.98

0.15

59.5***

3>2>1

VL 2nd trial hard

0.00

0.00

0.51

0.75

2.12

1.17

52.1***

3>2>1

VL 3rd trial total

3.80

1.77

5.10

1.66

8.60

1.55

76.0***

3>2>1

VL 3rd trial easy

3.70

1.72

4.61

1.28

5.93

0.26

28.1***

3>2>1

VL 3rd trial hard

0.10

0.31

0.49

0.68

2.67

1.41

66.2***

3>1&2

DI total

3.70

2.11

5.20

1.72

8.55

1.23

75.0***

3>2>1

DI easy

3.60

1.96

4.76

1.34

5.74

0.50

20.7***

3>2>1

DI hard

0.10

0.31

0.49

0.81

2.81

1.09

98.8***

3>1&2

DR total

2.78

2.10

4.76

2.20

8.64

1.48

74.3***

3>2>1

DR easy

2.67

1.94

4.34

1.78

5.74

0.46

28.6***

3>2>1

DR hard

0.11

0.32

0.42

0.81

2.91

1.28

83.0***

3>1&2

Word recognition

7.00

2.42

7.95

1.18

8.91

0.37

14.9***

3>2>1

WRNP

2.88

3.63

1.12

2.08

0.10

0.28

11.7***

3>2>1

BG copy

2.13

1.96

4.29

0.64

4.55

0.50

40.4***

3&2>1

BG recall

0.88

1.20

3.10

1.86

4.33

0.76

35.5***

3>2>1

Set shifting lines

3.44

3.03

7.44

2.07

8.93

0.26

56.1***

3>2>1

Set shifting time

102.14

70.05

87.93

53.50

46.60

20.61

12.1***

1&>3

DS forward

5.80

1.71

5.83

1.05

6.57

1.31

4.2*

3>1&2

DS backward

3.20

1.44

3.71

1.54

4.53

1.34

6.5**

3>1&2

Semantic spherical

1.86

1.51

3.93

2.22

6.11

2.65

18.4***

3>2>1

Lexical fluency

3.78

3.21

4.37

1.91

8.60

3.25

28.7***

3>1&2

CN total

8.50

2.25

10.79

0.35

11.93

.35

12.5***

3>2>1

CN correct

6.20

5.23

10.10

2.15

11.25

1.28

22.2***

3&2>1

CN stimulus cue

2.88

3.32

0.69

0.90

0.68

1.27

11.7***

1>2&3

CNphonemic cue

0.75

1.69

0.79

1.41

0.08

0.35

4.3*

2>3

Abstraction

1.14

0.36

1.16

0.37

1.00

0.00

3.6*

2>3

Judgment

1.14

0.36

1.05

0.22

1.00

0.00

2.7

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  1. VL verbal learning, DI distractor interval, DR delayed recall, WRNP word recognition novel prototype, BG Bender Gestalt, DS digit span, CN confrontation naming
  2. 1 = Dementia; 2 = mild cognitive impairment; 3 = normal < 0.05 (*), < 0.01 (**), < 0.001 (***)
  3. Level of significance among subgroups (normal, MCI and dementia) by F value
  4. Post hoc test to measure the variations between the subgroups in each battery test
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