Table 2.
FCI and Cognitive Test Scores of Controls and Persons with MCI at Baseline and Year 2
| Controls n=66 |
MCI n=49 |
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| Variable | Range | Baseline | Year 2 | t, p | d | Baseline | Year 2 | t, p | d |
| Financial Capacity | |||||||||
| FCI total score | 0–285 | 225.8 (9.7) | 226.0 (8.4) | .2, .856 | .02 | 207.9 (26.7) | 201.4 (28.6) | 3.5, .001 | .23 |
| Global Cognition | |||||||||
| DRS-2 total score | 0–144 | 139.0 (3.3) | 139.4 (3.0) | .9, .356 | .13 | 131.1 (7.4) | 127.1 (8.8) | 4.5, <.001 | .49 |
| MMSE | 0–30 | 29.6 (0.8) | 29.3 (1.0) | 2.0, .046 | .33 | 27.6 (1.9) | 26.5 (2.8) | 2.9, .005 | .45 |
| CDR-sum of boxes | 0–18 | 0.0 (0.1) | 0.0 (0.1) | .8, .418 | .00 | 1.6 (0.8) | 2.9 (1.8) | 6.1, <.001 | .95 |
| Attention | |||||||||
| DRS-2 Attention | 0–37 | 36.1 (1.1) | 35.9 (1.2) | 1.6, .109 | .17 | 35.4 (1.6) | 35.3 (1.4) | .4, .866 | .03 |
| Digit Span Forward | 0–12 | 9.0 (1.7) | 8.9 (1.8) | .2, .869 | .06 | 7.5 (1.6) | 7.7 (2.1) | .2, .714 | .07 |
| Digit Span Backward | 0–12 | 7.0 (1.8) | 7.2 (1.9) | .7, .497 | .11 | 5.7 (2.1) | 5.8 (1.9) | .1, .920 | .02 |
| Expressive Language | |||||||||
| Animal Naming | 0–1+ | 21.2 (4.9) | 21.4 (4.4) | .4, .710 | .04 | 15.7 (4.0) | 15.6 (4.6) | .4, .711 | .04 |
| Boston Naming Test | 0–30 | 27.9 (1.8) | 28.3 (1.5) | 1.8, .082 | .24 | 25.2 (4.8) | 23.7 (5.8) | 3.2, .002 | .29 |
| Verbal Memory | |||||||||
| CVLT-II Total | 0–80 | 47.0 (8.4) | 48.3 (8.8) | 1.3, .191 | .15 | 29.8 (7.5) | 27.4 (7.3) | 2.5, .015 | .32 |
| Logical Memory I | 0–50 | 27.2 (5.0) | 28.8 (4.6) | 2.5, .014 | .33 | 16.1 (6.9) | 14.7 (8.3) | 1.5, .138 | .19 |
| Logical Memory II | 0–50 | 23.6 (5.0) | 26.3 (5.1) | 4.5, <.001 | .53 | 8.6 (7.6) | 8.4 (8.7) | .4, .728 | .03 |
| Visual Memory | |||||||||
| Visual Reproduction I | 0–41 | 76.6 (13.1) | 80.1 (12.0) | 2.5, .016 | .28 | 58.7 (15.6) | 55.0 (19.0) | 1.7, .094 | .21 |
| Visual Reproduction II | 0–41 | 54.1 (18.2) | 56.9 (17.0) | 1.3, .231 | .16 | 19.7 (18.6) | 19.1 (20.7) | .3, .771 | .04 |
| Executive Functioning | |||||||||
| Trails B | 0–300 | 73.0 (18.5) | 72.7 (23.8) | .1, .921 | .14 | 131.3 (71.7) | 134.2 (76.8) | .6, .491 | .09 |
| Trails C | 0–360 | 74.2 (24.7) | 70.0 (22.9) | 1.5, .135 | .18 | 155.6 (102.0) | 201.2 (108.5) | 4.3, <.001 | .52 |
| Processing Speed | |||||||||
| Digit Symbol Coding | 0–133 | 64.3 (14.1) | 64.3 (12.8) | .0, .987 | .00 | 46.7 (17.2) | 45.6 (16.8) | 1.1, .260 | .06 |
| Trails A | 0–180 | 30.9 (9.3) | 28.9 (9.4) | 2.0, .055 | .21 | 46.2 (23.2) | 41.8 (20.0) | .3, .779 | .04 |
| Arithmetic | |||||||||
| WRAT-3 Arithmetic | 0–55 | 41.2 (4.7) | 41.6 (4.8) | 1.2, .252 | .08 | 38.8 (5.6) | 38.5 (5.2) | .2, .856 | .01 |
| Depression | |||||||||
| GDS | 0–30 | 5.2 (4.8) | 3.9 (1.1) | 2.8, .007 | .37 | 7.0 (5.0) | 6.1 (4.7) | 1.5, .143 | .19 |
Note. Values for Baseline and Year 2 are mean (SD). p values for t-test analyzing differences from Baseline to Year 2 for each group; d = Cohen’s d; CVLT-II=California Verbal Learning Test; DRS=Dementia Rating Scale; FCI=Financial Capacity Instrument; GDS =Geriatric Depression Scale; WRAT-3=Wide Range Achievement Test.