Table 2. Correlations between the ordinal scales obtained from patients and informants, and a battery of neuropsychological tests and questionnaires.
| Patients | Informants | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | Expression | Initiative | Mood | Memory | Expression | Initiative | Mood | |
| MEC | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.144 | −0.003 | −0.115 | −0.105 | 0.069 | 0.225 | 0.060 | 0.118 |
| p | 0.260 | 0.978 | 0.370 | 0.418 | 0.589 | 0.076 | 0.637 | 0.353 |
| Naming | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.125 | 0.202 | 0.076 | −0.013 | 0.030 | 0.192 | 0.047 | 0.167 |
| p | 0.375 | 0.149 | 0.592 | 0.926 | 0.831 | 0.168 | 0.738 | 0.230 |
| Free recall | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.087 | 0.061 | 0.071 | 0.000 | 0.164 | 0.234 | 0.203 | 0.191 |
| p | 0.503 | 0.641 | 0.584 | 1.000 | 0.205 | 0.070 | 0.116 | 0.139 |
| Facilitated recall | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.100 | −0.097 | −0.291* | −0.171 | −0.122 | −0.071 | −0.200 | −0.157 |
| p | 0.439 | 0.454 | 0.025* | 0.192 | 0.343 | 0.581 | 0.118 | 0.220 |
| Recovery | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.108 | −0.045 | −0.043 | −0.084 | 0.080 | 0.116 | 0.061 | 0.056 |
| p | 0.394 | 0.724 | 0.735 | 0.511 | 0.526 | 0.354 | 0.628 | 0.657 |
| Categorical fluency | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.113 | 0.129 | 0.089 | 0.000 | 0.116 | 0.299* | 0.271* | 0.192 |
| p | 0.372 | 0.309 | 0.482 | 1.000 | 0.360 | 0.017* | 0.031* | 0.126 |
| Phonological fluency | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.096 | 0.202 | 0.045 | 0.037 | 0.152 | 0.305* | 0.175 | 0.153 |
| p | 0.448 | 0.112 | 0.725 | 0.774 | 0.230 | 0.016* | 0.166 | 0.226 |
| TMT A | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.113 | 0.316* | 0.188 | 0.167 | −0.038 | 0.323* | 0.196 | 0.125 |
| p | 0.404 | 0.019* | 0.166 | 0.226 | 0.778 | 0.016* | 0.146 | 0.352 |
| TMT B | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.226 | 0.126 | 0.080 | −0.023 | 0.127 | 0.187 | 0.236 | 0.317* |
| p | 0.111 | 0.374 | 0.574 | 0.874 | 0.368 | 0.184 | 0.094 | 0.024* |
| Clock test | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.203 | 0.048 | −0.026 | −0.009 | 0.185 | 0.221 | 0.265 | 0.192 |
| p | 0.145 | 0.731 | 0.852 | 0.950 | 0.184 | 0.112 | 0.056 | 0.166 |
| GDS-15 | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.076 | −0.467* | −0.439* | −0.312* | −0.043 | −0.371* | −0.393* | −0.426* |
| p | 0.603 | 0.001* | 0.003* | 0.034* | 0.768 | 0.010* | 0.007* | 0.003* |
| SS-IQCODE | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.056 | 0.115 | 0.073 | 0.106 | −0.378* | −0.177 | −0.437* | −0.289 |
| p | 0.718 | 0.455 | 0.642 | 0.511 | 0.014* | 0.249 | 0.005* | 0.061 |
| FAQ | ||||||||
| Tau b | −0.041 | −0.089 | 0.084 | 0.049 | −0.493* | −0.382* | −0.591† | −0.398* |
| p | 0.798 | 0.573 | 0.604 | 0.767 | 0.002* | 0.016* | <0.001† | 0.012* |
Recovery=(facilitated recall)/(16-free recall).
*Statistically significant results in individual tests (p<0.05), †Statistically significant results after correcting for multiple testing (p Holm<0.05).
FAQ: Functional Activities Questionnaire, GDS-15: Geriatric Depression Scale with 15 items, MEC: Miniexamen Cognoscitivo, SS-IQCODE: Shortened Spanish-Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly, TMT: Trail-Making Test.