From: Diabetes severely affects attentional performance after coronary artery bypass grafting
TAP test | Diabetics (n=10) | Non-diabetics (n=20) | ||
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Pre-op | Post-op | Pre-op | Post-op | |
alertness, without audio cueing; median reaction time (ms) | 270.5 ± 52.7 | 356.4 ± 165.5 | 277.4 ± 66.7 | 278.0 ± 59.5 |
ANOVA interaction (diabetes-status x timepoint) p=0.01 | post-hoc LSD p=0.002 | post-hoc LSD p=0.9 | ||
alertness, with audio warning; median reaction time (ms) | 279.0 ± 52.7 | 333.6 ± 120.0 | 279.2 ± 66.8 | 275.7 ± 49.9 |
ANOVA interaction (diabetes-status x timepoint) p=0.03 | post-hoc LSD p=0.01 | post-hoc LSD p=0.8 | ||
Divided attention, mean number of omissions | 3.8 ± 1.8 | 7.0 ± 4.6 | 2.2 ± 2.3 | 3.9 ± 5.8 |
ANOVA main effect (timepoint) p=0.03; effect size η2 = 0.16 | post-hoc LSD p=0.06 | post-hoc LSD p=0.2 | ||
selective attention, mean number of errors | 0.7 ± 1.3 | 0.5 ± 0.7 | 0. 5 ± 0.8 | 1.1 ± 2.2 |
no significant ANOVA-effects |