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Table 3 Comparison of Wisconsin Card Sorting Test scores between the combined group and the control group before and after treatment

	n	Total number of answers	Accuracy	Percentage of conceptualization level	Continuous response	Non persistent error	Number of categories completed
Combined group	56
Before treatment		129.73 ± 14.97	0.58 ± 0.15	0.45 ± 0.22	13.42 ± 7.34	45.68 ± 14.82	2.46 ± 1.82
After treatment		108.22 ± 15.11a,b	0.68 ± 0.14a,b	0.61 ± 0.18a,b	7.39 ± 6.78a,b	31.23 ± 17.07a,b	3.72 ± 2.14a,b
Control group	54
Before treatment		129.12 ± 15.28	0.59 ± 0.14	0.45 ± 0.23	13.97 ± 7.11	45.41 ± 15.35	2.55 ± 2.04
After treatment		114.59 ± 16.84a	0.65 ± 0.15a	0.58 ± 0.20a	8.72 ± 7.14a	34.65 ± 18.26a	3.47 ± 2.41a

^aP < 0.05 compared with before treatment.

^bP < 0.05 compared with the control group.