Skip to main content
. 2018 Jun 18;13(6):e0199054. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199054

Table 1. Stuttering-like disfluencies–between-group comparisons.

Speech task Group Mean(±SD) H df p-value Pairwise analysis
Monologue speech PD 3.85(±4.18) 65.76 2 <0.001* PD≠DS p = 0.005*
PD≠CG p<0.001*
DS≠CG p<0.001*
DS 31.05(±18.37)
CG 0.22(±0.61)
Solo oral reading PD 1.80(±2.01) 59.49 2 <0.001* PD≠DS p<0.001*
PD≠CG p = 0.008*
DS≠CG p<0.001*
DS 25.25(±18.73)
CG 0.17(±0.50)
Choral reading PD 0.20(±0.52) 12.49 2 0.002* PD = DS p = 0.337
PD = CG p = 0.290
DS≠CG p<0.001*
DS 1.30(±3.61)
CG 0(±0)

PD–Parkinson’s disease; DS–developmental stuttering; CG–control group; SD–standard deviation; df—degrees of freedom

* significant results; Kruskal-Wallis test and Dunn-Bonferroni test.