Table 6.
Correlation between craving reduction rate after the intervention with rates of changes from pre- to post-intervention in the EFs tasks
Group | WM accuracy | WM RT | BART-AV | BART-Max | WCST-PE | WCST-CC | Accuracy Go | Accuracy No-Go | |
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tDCS + MBSAT | Pearson coeffitient | −0.625 | 0.442 | 0.700 | 0.551 | 0.485 | −0.171 | −0.134 | −0.103 |
pvalue (2-taild) | 0.007**,*** | 0.075 | 0.002*, *** | 0.022*, *** | 0.049*, *** | 0.512 | 0.609 | 0.693 | |
tDCS | Pearson coeffitient | −0.438 | 0.380 | 0.569 | 0.353 | 0.332 | −0.339 | −0.031 | −0.297 |
pvalue (2-taild) | 0.090 | 0.146 | 0.021*, *** | 0.180 | 0.209 | 0.199 | 0.910 | 0.264 | |
MBSAT | Pearson coeffitient | −0.416 | 0.204 | 0.543 | 0.400 | 0.384 | −0.072 | −0.212 | −0.101 |
pvalue (2-taild) | 0.123 | 0.466 | 0.036*** | 0.140 | 0.158 | 0.800 | 0.449 | 0.720 | |
Sham | Pearson coeffitient | −0.145 | 0.187 | 0.021 | −0.170 | 0.161 | −0.245 | −0.372 | −0.160 |
pvalue (2-taild) | 0.592 | 0.489 | 0.939 | 0.529 | 0.551 | 0.323 | 0.156 | 0.554 |
EF, executive functions; WM accuracy, working memory accuracy; WM RT, working memory response time; WCST-PE, perseverative errors in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task; WCST-CC, completed categories in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task; BART-AV, adjusted value in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task; BART-Max, maximum number of pumps in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task.
Significant results are highlighted in (***) at 0.01 level (**) and 0.05 level (*).