Table 5. PSP-tailored SAND in PSP according to cognitive status.
| Continuous scores | Impaired scores (%) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAND task | PSP-D (12) |
PSP-MCImd (24) | PSP-MCI sd (9) |
PSP-NC (4) |
p | PSP-D (12) |
PSP-MCImd (24) |
PSP-MCIsd (9) |
PSP-NC (4) |
p |
| Naming | ||||||||||
| Total | 10 (5) | 10 (5) | 11.5 (5.25) | 14 (0) | 0.094 | 58.3% | 45.8% | 22.2% | 0% | 0.209 |
| Living | 5 (2.75) | 5 (4) | 5 (3.25) | 7 (0) | 0.303 | 33.3% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 0% | 0.693 |
| Non-living | 5 (3) | 5 (1.5) | 6.5 (3) | 7 (0) | 0.065 | 75% | 58.3% | 44.4% | 0% | 0.118 |
| Sentence comprehension | 5 (3.5) | 7 (3) | 7.5 (1.25) | 10 (4) | 0.019a,c,e,f | 66.7% | 50% | 25% | 0% | 0.055 |
| Single word comprehension | ||||||||||
| Total | 10 (4) | 10 (4) | 11.5 (1) | 12 (1) | 0.016a,c,e,f | 66.7% | 45.8% | 22.2% | 0% | 0.042a,c |
| Living | 4 (3) | 5 (3) | 6 (1) | 6 (1) | 0.056 | 66.7% | 41.7% | 44.4% | 0% | 0.093 |
| Non-living | 5 (2) | 5 (2) | 6 (0.25) | 6 (1) | 0.175 | 41.7% | 25% | 11.1% | 0% | 0.327 |
| Repetition | ||||||||||
| Total | 7 (3.5) | 7 (3) | 7.5 (2.75) | 7.5 (2) | 0.316 | 50% | 50% | 22.2% | 66.7% | 0.590 |
| Words | 6 (2) | 5 (2) | 6 (1) | 6 (2) | 0.021d,f | 33.3% | 37.5% | 0% | 0% | 0.119 |
| Non words | 1 (2.5) | 2 (2) | 2 (2.5) | 1 (2.5) | 0.846 | 41.7% | 41.7% | 22.2% | 50% | 0.621 |
| Sentence repetion | ||||||||||
| Total | 3 (3) | 3 (2) | 2 (2) | 6 (0) | 0.197 | 58.3% | 50% | 55.6% | 0% | 0.351 |
| Predictable | 1 (1) | 1 (2) | 1 (0.5) | 3 (0) | 0.233 | 66.7% | 62.5% | 55.6% | 0% | 0.192 |
| Unpredictable | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1.5) | 3 (0) | 0.102 | 41.7% | 16.7% | 22.2% | 0% | 0.304 |
| Reading | ||||||||||
| Total | 11 (8) | 14 (4) | 16 (3.25) | 15 (0) | 0.039a | 66.7% | 50% | 11.1% | 25% | 0.047a,d |
| Words | 9 (6.5) | 11 (4) | 12 (2.25) | 11 (0) | 0.140 | 66.7% | 50% | 33.3% | 25% | 0.256 |
| Non words | 2 (2.5) | 4 (2) | 4 (1) | 4 (0) | 0.029a,c | 58.3% | 29.2% | 11.1% | 0% | 0.021a,c |
| Semantic associations | 2 (1.5) | 2 (1) | 2.5 (1.5) | 3 (0) | 0.355 | 25% | 16.7% | 11.1% | 0% | 0.724 |
| Writing | ||||||||||
| Information Units | 1 (3) | 3 (3) | 4 (1.5) | 4 (0) | 0.009 a,b,c | 66.7% | 19% | 0% | 25% | 0.012a,b |
| Picture description | ||||||||||
| Information Units | 3 (3.5) | 4 (3) | 4 (4) | 3 (0) | 0.475 | 63.6% | 33.3% | 28.6% | 50% | 0.488 |
| PSP-tailored SAND Global Score | 9 (10) | 8 (9) | 5 (6.5) | 3 (0) | 0.024a,c | 83.3% | 75% | 66.7% | 50% | 0.603 |
No significant differences were detected according with the significance threshold corrected for multiple comparisons (< 0.001). However, in Italics are highlighted significant differences detected with the significance threshold set at p < 0.05
a = Dementia vs MCI-sd
b = Dementia vs MCI-md
c = Dementia vs NC
d = MCI-sd vs MCI-md
e = MCI- sd vs NC
f = MCI-md vs NC.