Table 1. Sociodemographic data and prostate cancer clinical characteristics and its relation to the MoCA test cut-off scores.
ADT: Androgen deprivation therapy, EAU: European Association of Urology, SD: standard deviation, Sig.: significance, MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment
P-value > 0.05: Non-significant (NS) ; P-value < 0.05: Significant (S); P-value < 0.01: Highly significant (HS).
*: Chi-square test.
| MoCA after 6 months | Test value | P-value | Sig. | |||
| Normal | Abnormal | |||||
| No. = 36 | No. =49 | |||||
| N (%) | N (%) | |||||
| Level of education | Illiterate | 8 (22.2) | 14 (28.6) | 1.889* | 0.596 | NS |
| Less than five years | 7 (19.4) | 11 (22.4) | ||||
| More than five years | 4 (11.1) | 2 (4.1) | ||||
| College graduate | 17 (47.2) | 22 (44.9) | ||||
| Past medical history | Diabetes mellitus | 21 (58.3) | 30 (61.2) | 0.072* | 0.788 | NS |
| Hypertension | 22 (61.1) | 27 (55.1) | 0.307* | 0.580 | NS | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 16 (44.4) | 25 (51.0) | 0.359* | 0.549 | NS | |
| Grade group (according to the Gleason score) | Grade 1 | 1 (2.8) | 0 (0.0) | 2.952* | 0.399 | NS |
| Grade 2 | 9 (25.0) | 19 (38.8) | ||||
| Grade 3 | 16 (44.4) | 18 (36.7) | ||||
| Grade 4 | 10 (27.8) | 12 (24.5) | ||||
| EAU risk groups | Intermediate risk | 12 (46.2) | 14 (53.8) | 0.228* | 0.892 | NS |
| High-risk | 19 (40.4) | 28 (59.6) | ||||
| Metastatic | 5 (41.7) | 7 (58.3) | ||||