Table 2.
Cognitive measurements for the two groups.
| Tests | Victims (n = 24) |
Control (25) |
p-value | Efecct Size | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | |||
| Similarities (WISC-III) | 8.5 | 3.4 | 9.4 | 2.5 | 0.403 | 0.240 |
| Verbal Fluency Test (FAS) | 34.9 | 8.0 | 40.1 | 8.2 | 0.030 | 0.640 |
| ROCF (copy) | 26.7 | 7.6 | 28.8 | 4.9 | 0.244 | 0.336 |
| ROCF (recall) | 14.0 | 7.9 | 19.6 | 5.9 | 0.008 | 0.792 |
| Selective Remiding Test – total | 87.1 | 21.0 | 92.3 | 21.1 | 0.394 | 0.246 |
| Selective Remiding Test LTR | 749 | 27.4 | 82.5 | 27.2 | 0.336 | 0.278 |
| Selective Remiding Test STR | 12.3 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 1.9 | 0.000 | 1.076 |
| Selective Remiding Test LTS | 85.3 | 20.7 | 82.6 | 21.6 | 0.659 | 0.127 |
| Selective Remiding Test CLTR | 57.1 | 26.6 | 64.0 | 27.8 | 0.382 | 0.252 |
| Selective Remiding Test RLTR | 18.2 | 12.0 | 12.2 | 4.5 | 0.026 | 0.653 |
| Selective Remiding Test Recall | 7.9 | 2.3 | 9.1 | 1.9 | 0.048 | 0.580 |
| WCST – Categories Achieved | 2.5 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 0.58 | 0.937 | 0.023 |
| WCST – perseverative errors | 14.6 | 8.2 | 12.8 | 5.0 | 0.360 | 0.263 |
| WCST – non-perseverative errors | 6.0 | 3.0 | 5.1 | 2.0 | 0.202 | 0.369 |
| WCST – failure to maintain set | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.08 | 0.2 | 0.000 | 1.509 |
| TMT – A | 72.6 | 32.1 | 41.3 | 14,.0 | 0.000 | 1.252 |
| TMT - B | 173.4 | 98.4 | 74.8 | 22.8 | 0.000 | 1.379 |
| Digit Forward (WISC-III) | 6.5 | 2.1 | 6.9 | 2.04 | 0.484 | 0.202 |
| Digit Backward (WISC-III) | 3.0 | 2.0 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.184 | 0.383 |
| Digit span | 7.8 | 4.0 | 9.6 | 2.4 | 0.070 | 0.528 |
| Block Design | 9.5 | 4.0 | 9.2 | 2.6 | 0.759 | 0.088 |
| Vocabulary (WISC-III) | 10.,4 | 2.9 | 10.7 | 2.3 | 0.693 | 0.113 |
| Estimated IQ | 19.9 | 6.2 | 19.9 | 4.7 | 0.999 | 0.000 |
∗ Significant: p ≤ 0,0022 (Student's t test). Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons (Armstrong, 2014).
TMT = Trail Making Test; WISC-III = Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children 3rd edition; ROCF = Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure Test; WCST = Wisconsin Card Sorting Test; LTR = long-term Recall; STR = short-term recall; LTS = long-term Storage; CLTR = consistent long-term recall; RLTR = random long-term recall.