Table 1.

Cognitive, functional and psychiatric scores at baseline and follow-up visits.

	Baseline	3-month follow-up	6-month follow-up	9-month follow-up	12-month follow-up
	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)	Mean (SE)
	n= 206	n= 206	n= 171	n= 155	n= 147
MMSE total	19.60 (.33)	19.66 (.30)	19.19 (.31)	18.63 (.34)*	17.54 (.35)*
ADAS-Cog total	25.63 (.59)	25.48 (.58)	26.03 (.62)	27.18 (.60)*	29.19 (.67)*
MMSE-orientation	5.93 (.15)	6.16 (.14)	6.04 (.17)	5.55 (.15)	5.27 (.16)*
RDRS-2 total	28.18 (.32)	-	29.59 (.37)*	-	30.80 (.48)*
NPI-Q distress	6.87 (.55)	-	6.62 (.56)	-	6.43 (.58)
NPI-Q severity	4.10 (.25)	-	3.94 (.28)	-	4.31 (.34)

MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination;

ADAS-Cog: Cognitive Subscale of Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale;

RDRS-2: Rapid Disability Rating Scale;

NPI-Q: Neuropsychiatric Inventory Questionnaire;

SE: standard error.

^*p< .05