Table 3.
Comparison of cognitive and somatic scores for the myocardial infarction and college student groups
| Post-AMI patients
|
Students
|
Somatic score comparison
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| Cognitive score | n | Cognitive/affective score Mean | Somatic score Mean | Somatic score as proportion of total score % | n | Cognitive/affective score Mean | Somatic score Mean | Somatic score as proportion of total score % | Difference in somatic scores | Hedges’s g | P |
| 0-3 | 202 | 1.30 | 3.71 | 74.1 | 202 | 1.30 | 2.48 | 65.6 | 1.23 | 0.52 | < 0.001 |
| 4-7 | 91 | 5.09 | 5.38 | 51.3 | 91 | 5.09 | 4.16 | 45.0 | 1.22 | 0.49 | 0.001 |
| 8-11 | 40 | 9.28 | 6.30 | 40.4 | 40 | 9.28 | 6.08 | 39.6 | 0.23 | 0.08 | 0.708 |
| 12+ | 33 | 15.58 | 9.21 | 37.2 | 33 | 15.58 | 8.18 | 34.4 | 1.03 | 0.29 | 0.241 |
| Total | 366 | 4.41 | 4.91 | 52.7 | 366 | 4.41 | 3.81 | 46.4 | 1.10 | 0.36 | < 0.001 |
AMI, acute myocardial infarction.