Table 2.
Baseline and follow-up cognitive scores# of treatment groups
| SIM versus | |||||||
| SEQ | SIM | SEQ | |||||
| Baseline | Follow-up | ES$ | Baseline | Follow-up | ES$ | ES# | |
| Domain | n = 26 | n = 26 | n = 29 | n = 29 | |||
| Composite memory | 95.8 (13.5) | 97.6 (11.7) | 0.14 | 98.4 (15.2) | 104.6 (14.8) | 0.42* | 0.45 |
| Verbal memory | 96.3 (13.3) | 102.3 (13.2) | 0.46* | 98.6 (17.1) | 106.9 (17.6) | 0.48* | 0.15 |
| Visual memory | 97.2 (13.6) | 95.9 (12.0) | – 0.10 | 98.9 (15.9) | 101.1 (16.4) | 0.14 | 0.17 |
| Psychomotor speed | 105.3 (12.5) | 108.2 (11.7) | 0.25 | 103.0 (14.8) | 104.4 (10.7) | 0.11 | – 0.28 |
| Reaction time | 96.8 (14.1) | 101.5 (12.3) | 0.35* | 100.8 (11.6) | 99.9 (11.9) | – 0.08 | – 0.54* |
| Complex attention | 102.5 (10.2) | 106.9 (16.0) | 0.33 | 96.5 (17.9) | 106.3 (8.2) | 0.70* | 0.16 |
| Cognitive flexibility | 101.3 (10.1) | 108.2 (13.5) | 0.57* | 100.6 (10.6) | 105.7 (8.8) | 0.53* | – 0.14 |
| Processing speed | 108.1 (14.2) | 110.7 (12.0) | 0.20 | 107.6 (12.2) | 109.2 (13.5) | 0.12 | – 0.17 |
| Executive functioning | 101.0 (10.0) | 110.1 (9.0) | 0.96* | 103.0 (9.2) | 105.9 (9.0) | 0.31 | – 0.60* |
| Simple attention | 102.7 (7.5) | 104.0 (7.1) | 0.18 | 103.8 (9.6) | 105.0 (6.5) | 0.16 | – 0.02 |
| Motor speed | 101.7 (12.2) | 104.0 (14.1) | 0.18 | 99.2 (16.0) | 100.0 (11.8) | 0.06 | – 0.27 |
| Reasoning | 105.2 (11.1) | 105.2 (8.6) | 0.01 | 101.4 (11.5) | 106.6 (10.1) | 0.49* | 0.54 |
#Results are reported as mean (SD); $ES, Effect size, within-group Cohen’s d; #ES, Effect size, between-group Cohen’s d; *Significant (p-value <0.05).