Familiar Music as an Enhancer of Self-Consciousness in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
Table 3
Error percentages and means and standard deviations (SD) of good answers for each aspect (A) of self-consciousness produced by the experimental and control AD groups, before the intervention phase (at baseline).
Aspects of self-consciousness questionnaire
Experimental AD group
Control AD group
Mean (SD) %
Error
Mean (SD)
Error %
A1: personal identity
3.08 ( 1.73)
5.1
3.26 ( 1.48)
5.3
−1.41
NS
A2: anosognosia
2.03 (2.31)
23.8
1.99 (2.44)
23.3
0.86
NS
A3: affective state
0.8 (0.07)
6.8
0.79 (0.1)
6.71
0.26
NS
A4: body representation
1.9 (0.23)
3.4
1.72 (0.32)
3.07
1.03
NS
A5: prospective memory
0.65 (2.1)
11.9
0.7 (1.91)
12.81
−0.19
NS
A6: introspection
0.75 (1.54)
8.5
0.8 (1.63)
9.06
−0.24
NS
A7: moral judgments
0.9 (0.42)
13.6
0.91 (0.61)
13.75
−0.12
NS
NS: not significant (). Error %: percentage of poor answers (incorrect plus partly correct answers).
aP values referred to the means of the control and experimental groups.
