CM patients had also significantly more difficulty in reaching the first category on the WCST (χ (2) 2 = 9.82, p = 0.0074).
However, under overcast conditions, when their eyes were covered with a piece of cardboard taped to their back, or when they were presented with only a handful of bright stars in the planetarium, they had significantly more difficulty following a linear path.
At age 2 years, significantly more difficulty breathing and more probable asthma were reported among children jointly exposed prenatally to PAHs and postnatally to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) (OR for probable asthma = 7.52, 95% CI 1.71 33.11, p<0.01) [3].
Despite no differences between groups in relative heel height or relative ball width of footwear worn to the examination, participants with HV reported significantly more difficulty with footwear and concerns about foot appearance than controls.
That is, performance on the Go/NoGo task was generally less accurate in smokers than non-smokers in such that smokers displayed significantly more difficulties to inhibit their responses in NoGo trials.
Moreover, two months after birth, women with severe anxiety had significantly more difficulties in positive reframing of their new situation than women presenting no anxiety.
The children who received radiotherapy tended to have more difficulties with chessboard/coding, object assembly and had significantly more difficulties with block designs than children treated only with chemotherapy (6.2 vs 10.6, P=0.05; 6.7 vs 9.3, P=0.09; 6.7 vs 9.3, P=0.04; respectively).
Children with ASD were also reported by their parents to have significantly more difficulties with sensory processing (SSP), general anxiety (CASI-Anx), and dental anxiety (CFSS-DS) compared to TD children (P <.001 for all variables).
Another recent study showed that patients presenting for bariatric surgery (BS) with comorbid ADHD had significantly more difficulties in following visits after BS than those without comorbid ADHD [ 41].
For the verbal scale, children who received radiotherapy had significantly more difficulties in abstract reasoning and vocabulary than children treated only by chemotherapy (7.3 vs 12.6, P=0.009; 8 vs 12.6, P=0.008, respectively).
While surveyed TPV refugees reported significantly more difficulties in accessing education, English language tuition and welfare, compared with PHV refugees, their narratives were more focused on the pervasive and detrimental impact of the interminable uncertainty about their future, social isolation, anger and sense of injustice.
