TABLE 3.
Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) of neuropsychological tests of executive function (EF) for the control and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) groups, and for the mTBI subgroups split by executive function performance
| Measure | Control
|
mTBI
|
Intact EF
|
Reduced EF
|
P
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control vs mTBI | Intact vs Reduced EF | Control vs Reduced EF | |||||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| WCST Perseverative Responses T-Score |
47.1 | 5.8 | 48.6 | 8.7 | 52.2 | 7.7 | 44.2 | 8.1 | .56 | .01 | .34 |
| D-KEFS Category Switching SS | 12.5 | 3.2 | 9.4 | 3.0 | 10.2 | 2.5 | 8.4 | 3.5 | .003 | .12 | .002 |
| D-KEFS Trails Switching SS | 9.9 | 2.2 | 8.5 | 3.5 | 10.4 | 1.9 | 6.1 | 3.6 | .15 | <.001 | .001 |
Abbreviations: D-KEFS, Delis-Kaplan executive function system; SS, scaled score; WCST, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.