Table 5.
Correlations between Mental Fog and Objective Cognitive Tasks in Persons with Moderate-to-severe TBI (n = 15).
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. MCSa | 1 | −.08 | .06 | −.20 | .25 | −.4 | −.31 | −.62* | −.58* | .12 | .03 | −.22 | −0.22 |
| 2. PCSS | 1 | −.25 | .30 | .09 | −.13 | −.31 | .20 | −.20 | .27 | .09 | .23 | −0.12 | |
| 3. Time since injury | 1 | .18 | .13 | .01 | .32 | −.03 | .10 | −.27 | −.29 | −.32 | −.24 | ||
| 4. Age | 1 | .24 | −.12 | .09 | −.02 | .40 | −.13 | −.09 | .13 | .10 | |||
| 5. Sex | 1 | .30 | −.16 | −.14 | −.16 | .15 | .17 | .06 | .17 | ||||
| 6. Detection | 1 | .46† | .36 | .08 | −.30 | −.10 | −.18 | .19 | |||||
| 7. Identification | 1 | .25 | .69** | −.28 | −.24 | −.28 | .05 | ||||||
| 8. Learning | 1 | .13 | −.58* | −.39 | −.14 | −.19 | |||||||
| 9. One Back | 1 | .13 | −.03 | .04 | .29 | ||||||||
| 10. UFOV®1 | 1 | .80*** | .66** | .62* | |||||||||
| 11. UFOV®2 | 1 | .80*** | .77*** | ||||||||||
| 12. UFOV®3 | 1 | .68** | |||||||||||
| 13. UFOV®4 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Notes. All correlations are Spearman rho. MCS = Mental Clutter Scale; PCSS = Post-Concussive Symptom Scale; POMS-Dep = Depression subscale from the Profile of Mood States; UFOV = Useful Field of View.
p < .10
p < .05
p < .01
Pre-adjusted for association with depressive symptoms using residuals from a linear regression.