TABLE 1.
Patients’ demographic and clinical characteristics.
Rhythm workers |
Tetris |
No intervention group |
P-value | ||||
Mean (range) | n | Mean (range) | n | Mean (range) | n | ||
Demographics | |||||||
Age (years) | 66.8 (50–77) | 12 | 67.7 (67–56) | 11 | 70.3 (63–79) | 10 | 0.46 |
Men/women | – | 8/4 | – | 10/1 | – | 9/1 | 0.50 |
Disease duration (years) | 9.9 (2–25) | 12 | 9.6 (2–23) | 11 | 10.2 (6–18) | 10 | 0.21 |
Clinical characteristics | |||||||
MDS-UPDRS | |||||||
Total score | 65.4 (32–102) | 57.0 (24–88) | 56.7 (34–79) | 0.50 | |||
Motor subscore (part 3) | 29.0 (3–51) | 26.2 (10–39) | 29.9 (20–46) | 0.74 | |||
Speech item (3.1) | 1.4 (0–3) | (0–2) | 1.1 (0–3) | 0.51 | |||
Upper limb items (3.4a–3.6b) | 7.1 (0–16) | 4.7 (0–10) | 8.1 (1–14) | 0.14 | |||
Lower limb items (3.7a–3.8b) | 6.5 (0–13) | 5.1 (2–9) | 6.3 (0–12) | 0.54 | |||
Hoehn and Yahr score | 2.2 (2–3) | 2.1 (2–3) | 2.2 (2–3) | 0.88 | |||
Cognitive assessment | |||||||
MoCA | 25.7 (22–30) | 25.0 (19–28) | 25.7 (20–30) | 0.77 |
P-values are results of one-way ANOVAs comparing the three groups on each measure. MDS-UPDRS, Movement Disorder Society—Unified Parkinson’s disease Rating Scale (Goetz et al., 2008); MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (Nasreddine et al., 2005).