Table 2.
Demographic and Clinical assessments in female participants and male participants.
| Female participants | Male participants | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | MTBI patients | Healthy control | P | Cohen's d | MTBI patients | Healthy control | P | Cohen's d |
| Age | 33.1 ± 14.3 (13~59) | 37.5 ± 12.3 (20~54) | 0.18 | −0.3 | 29.3 ± 10.3 (16~48) | 28.6 ± 8.4 (14~53) | 0.93 | 0.07 |
| Education level | 9.5 ± 4.5 (1~16) | 10.7 ± 4.7 (3~18) | 0.49 | −0.26 | 9.7 ± 3.2 (5~15) | 12.4 ± 4.8 (1~18) | 0.07 | −0.7 |
| CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS | ||||||||
| TMT-A | 55.1 ± 34.9 | 49.4 ± 24.1 | 0.862 | 0.2 | 47.6 ± 22.5 | 32.8 ± 22.4 | 0.124 | 0.7 |
| RPCS | 13.9 ± 8.7 | 2.8 ± 2.8 | 0.000 | 1.7 | 6.9 ± 6.0 | 1.1 ± 1.9 | 0.004 | 1.3 |
| PCL-C | 26.4 ± 8.6 | 17.0 ± 0.0 | 0.000 | 1.5 | 21.0 ± 2.9 | 17.0 ± 0.0 | 0.012 | 1.9 |
| DSC | 37.4 ± 17.0 | 42.8 ± 17.0 | 0.342 | −0.3 | 35.2 ± 14.3 | 54.7 ± 11.8 | 0.001 | −1.5 |
| Forward DS | 8.2 ± 1.9 | 7.7 ± 1.7 | 0.366 | 0.3' | 8.0 ± 1.5 | 9.1 ± 1.1 | 0.062 | −0.8 |
| Backward DS | 3.6 ± 1.7 | 3.8 ± 0.9 | 0.860 | −0.1 | 4.3 ± 1.8 | 5.7 ± 2.0 | 0.023 | −0.7 |
| VF | 17.3 ± 5.0 | 17.2 ± 5.7 | 0.962 | 0.01 | 17.1 ± 6.0 | 21.3 ± 5.7 | 0.042 | −0.7 |
TMT-A, Trail making test A; RPCS, Rivermead Post-Concussion Symptom Questionnaire; PCL-C, Posttraumatic stress disorder Checklist—Civilian Version; DSC, Digit Symbol coding; DS, Digit Span; VF, Verbal Fluency. Effect sizes reported are Cohen's d-values.