Table 3.
Autobiographical memory performance of patients and healthy controls.
| Older patients | Younger patients | Healthy controls | F (df)a | p | Partial η2 | Post hocb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N = 25 | N = 23 | N = 21 | |||||
| M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | |||||
| Episodic details, periods 1–4 | 21.12 (14.47) | 25.57 (13.26) | 30.62 (7.76) | 3.41 (2, 66) | 0.039 | 0.094 | O < H |
| Episodic details, periods 1–2 | 10.28 (7.66) | 12.43 (7.22) | 12.90 (5.34) | 1.01 (2, 66) | 0.371 | 0.030 | |
| Episodic details, periods 3–4 | 10.84 (8.11) | 13.13 (7.25) | 17.71 (4.46) | 5.80 (2, 66) | 0.005 | 0.149 | O, Y < H |
| Semantic, periods 1–4 | 16.80 (3.07) | 17.74 (2.26) | 18.81 (1.75) | 3.81 (2, 66) | 0.027 | 0.103 | O < H |
| Semantic, periods 1–2 | 7.64 (2.10) | 8.13 (1.79) | 9.00 (1.30) | 3.35 (2, 66) | 0.041 | 0.092 | O < H |
| Semantic, periods 3–4 | 9.16 (1.34) | 9.61 (0.78) | 9.81 (0.60) | 2.66 (2, 66) | 0.077 | 0.075 |
H, healthy controls; O, older patients, Y, younger patients.
aRepeated measures ANOVA (df, degrees of freedom).
bGames–Howell Test (5%).