Table 2.
Comparison of performance on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment between English and Hebrew-speaking Parkinson's patients.
| Variable | Maximal score | English speaking, Mean (SD) |
Hebrew speaking, Mean (SD) |
P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 250 | n = 233 | |||
| Visuospatial and executive function | 5 | 4.3 (0.9) | 4.2 (1.0) | 0.138 |
| Naming | 3 | 2.8 (0.5) | 2.9 (0.2) | <0.001 |
| Attention | 6 | 5.7 (0.6) | 5.5 (0.8) | 0.012 |
| Language | 3 | 2.7 (0.6) | 1.8 (0.9) | <0.001 |
| Sentence repetition | 2 | 1.8 (0.5) | 1.3 (0.7) | <0.001 |
| Fluency | 1 | 0.9 (0.3) | 0.5 (0.5) | <0.001 |
| Total number of words | 15.7 (5.0) | 10.6 (0.5) | <0.001 | |
| Abstraction | 2 | 1.9 (0.4) | 1.9 (0.4) | 0.77 |
| Delayed recall | 5 | 2.8 (1.5) | 3.0 (1.4) | 0.05 |
| Orientation | 6 | 5.9 (0.3) | 5.9 (0.5) | 0.509 |
| Total score | 30 | 26.0 (2.4) | 25.4 (2.4) | 0.007 |
| Total score + education | 31 | 26.1 (2.4) | 25.7 (2.4) | 0.085 |
| Total score without language | 27 | 23.4 (2.3) | 23.7 (2.1) | 0.111 |
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation.