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. 2023 Jan 11;18:9. doi: 10.1186/s13023-022-02609-x

Table 3.

Personality evaluation and neuropsychological test performances in ECD patients

Mean SD Reference t p
Personality evaluation (BFI, n = 30)
Extraversion 3.10 0.94 3.2 − 0.58 0.56
Agreeableness 4.19 0.49 3.9 3.18 < 0.005*
Conscientiousness 3.77 0.53 3.4 3.81 < 0.001*
Openness 3.40 0.69 3.5 1.61 0.12
Neuroticism 2.72 0.95 3.0 − 0.79 0.44
Neuropsychological test performance (n = 25)
Wisconsin card sorting task
 Total number of errors 0.06 1.81 0 0.16 0.88
 Non-perseveration errors − 0.75 1.86 0 − 2.04 0.05
 Perseveration errors − 0.29 2.80 0 − 0.53 0.60
d2 test of attention
 KL 96.15 13.25 100 37.01 < 0.0001*
 GZ 84.40 20.02 100 16.12 < 0.0001*
 GZ-F 86.40 20.79 100 15.99 < 0.0001*
Stroop Test
 Word reading − 0.83 1.48 0 − 2.87 0.024
 Color naming − 0.81 1.72 0 − 2.87 0.008*
 Stroop interference − 0.24 1.31 0 0.92 0.37
California verbal learning test
 STFR − 0.63 1.33 0 − 2.38 0.025
 STIR − 0.84 1.40 0 − 3.01 0.006*
 LTFR − 0.83 1.44 0 − 2.87 0.008*
 LTIR − 1.01 1.39 0 − 3.63 < 0.001*
Verbal fluency tests
 Semantic − 0.48 1.08 0 − 2.29 0.03
 Phonetic − 0.24 1.14 0 − 1.07 0.29
Digit span test
 Forward − 0.47 0.71 0 − 3.36 0.0026*
 Backward − 0.23 0.84 0 − 1.37 0.18
 Sequencing − 0.22 0.86 0 − 1.33 0.20
Trail making test
 TMT-A − 0.63 1.74 0 − 1.86 0.07
 TMT-B − 1.54 4.34 0 − 1.80 0.08

ECD Erdheim-Chester disease, SD standard deviation, BFI Big Five Inventory

*Significant after Bonferroni correction