Familiar Music as an Enhancer of Self-Consciousness in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
Table 4
Means and standard deviations (SD) of good answers for each aspect (A) of self-consciousness test produced by the experimental and control AD groups in the pre- and post-intervention phases.
Aspects of self-consciousness (SC) questionnaire
Experimental AD group
Control AD group
Mean (SD)
Mean (SD)
Mean (SD)
Mean (SD)
Pre-
Post-
Pre-
Post-
A1: personal identity
3.08 ( 1.73)
3.48 (2.00)
−2.63
.023
3.26 ( 1.48)
2.84 ( 1.42)
2.21
.044
.019
A2: anosognosia
2.03 (2.31)
2.14 (1.96)
−0.67
NS
1.99 (2.44)
1.03 (2.63)
2.46
.027
.042
A3: affective state
0.8 (0.07)
0.93 (0.56)
−2.34
.031
0.79 (0.1)
0.77 (0.41)
0.11
NS
.02
A4: body’ representation
1.9 (0.23)
1.99 (0.17)
−2.19
.049
1.72 (0.32)
1.88 (1.54)
−2.29
.049
NS
A5: prospective memory
0.65 (2.1)
0.63 (2.4)
0.23
NS
0.7 (1.91)
0.3 (3.1)
2.71
.019
.04
A6: introspection
0.75 (1.54)
0.74 (1.65)
0.22
NS
0.8 (1.63)
0.61 (2.34)
2.27
.048
NS
A7: moral judgments
0.9 (0.42)
1.3 (2.21)
−2.38
.037
0.91 (0.61)
0.64 (0.98)
2.36
.045
.034
Total score of SC
10.11 (2.44)
11.21 (3.14)
−2.07
.056
10.17 (2.1)
8.07 (1.8)
2.44
.038
.016
values referred to comparison of pre/post-intervention differences between the experimental and control AD groups.
