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Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2009 Jul 19;169(1):70–74. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.06.018

Table 2.

Comparison of PAOFI, BDI and Neurocognitive Performance

	Substance Abuse			Non-Clinical			P
	Mean	SD	Median	Mean	SD	Median
Total PAOFI	6.5	7.7	4.0	3.0	4.6	1.0	<0.001^a
Memory	2.8	3.2	2.0	1.3	2.1	0.0	<0.001^b
Language	2.0	2.8	1.0	1.0	1.4	1.0	<0.001^b
Higher Cognitive	1.7	2.6	0.0	0.8	1.7	0.0	<0.001^b
Adj. BDI	18.5	11.0	18.0	7.3	7.9	5.0	<0.001^a
Neurocognitive performance
WRAT-III^†	96.5	12.7	99.0	99.3	10.8	99.0	0.028 a
PSI^†	92.4	14.1	91.0	97.2	13.1	96.0	0.001^c
Verbal Fl. FAS^†	94.6	17.1	95.0	103.1	14.6	103.0	<0.001^c
Verbal Fl. Animals^†	95.1	19.3	98.0	102.0	18.7	101.0	0.005 ^c
Trail A (seconds)	36.5	12.2	36.0	24.4	7.1	23.0	<0.001^c
Trail B (seconds)	99.9	53.2	82.0	62.5	27.0	58.0	<0.001^c
WCST Total Errors^†	84.8	17.3	86.0	104.9	11.5	103.0	<0.001^c
WCST Pers. Resp^†	90.0	13.9	93.0	114.0	19.4	108.0	<0.001^c
WCST Categories	2.4	1.6	2.0	3.0	1.5	3.0	<0.001^c

^†

Standard Scores

^a

alpha level for significance: P<0.05

^b

alpha level for significance: P<0.016

^c

alpha level for significance: P<0.006