Table 2.
Outcome measures of participants
| Intervention group (N = 86)
|
Control group (N = 90)
|
P value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pretest (M/SD) | Posttest (M/SD) | Difference (ΔM/SD) | Pretest (M/SD) | Posttest (M/SD) | Difference (ΔM/SD) | ||
| Total adjusted CDRS | 145.68 (14.42) | 157.92 (8.19) | 12.24 (11.57) | 152.80 (10.73) | 157.17 (8.23) | 4.37 (7.99) | <0.001 |
| Attention | 33.11 (2.82) | 34.64 (1.88) | 1.52 (3.03) | 34.00 (2.84) | 34.56 (1.81) | 0.56 (2.87) | 0.003 |
| Initiation/perseveration | 43.88 (6.03) | 46.20 (4.59) | 2.33 (5.07) | 45.76 (4.84) | 46.39 (3.95) | 0.63 (4.55) | 0.013 |
| Construction | 5.17 (1.32) | 5.38 (1.23) | 0.21 (0.93) | 5.53 (0.95) | 5.30 (1.25) | −0.23 (1.17) | 0.028 |
| Conceptualization | 27.56 (5.80) | 33.21 (2.83) | 5.65 (5.70) | 31.62 (3.92) | 33.71 (3.42) | 2.09 (4.62) | <0.001 |
| Memory | 29.45 (3.69) | 31.71 (2.67) | 2.26 (3.03) | 30.06 (3.52) | 31.38 (2.59) | 1.78 (2.94) | 0.015 |
| Total SF12 | 88.62 (13.88) | 96.44 (13.67) | 7.82 (13.19) | 94.24 (14.66) | 97.42 (14.25) | 3.18 (11.61) | 0.014 |
| SF12-physical | 38.95 (10.29) | 39.23 (11.28) | 0.28 (10.45) | 42.76 (10.03) | 42.85 (9.23) | 0.09 (9.62) | 0.736 |
| SF12-mental | 49.66 (11.54) | 57.20 (9.23) | 7.54 (10.88) | 51.48 (11.14) | 54.56 (9.02) | 3.08 (10.16) | 0.005 |
Abbreviations: CDRS, Chinese version of Mattis Dementia Rating Scale; M, mean value; SD, standard deviation; ΔM, mean difference.