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Table 1 Participant characteristics for the four groups

From: Characteristics of daily life gait in fall and non fall-prone stroke survivors and controls

 

NF-SS

F-SS

NF-CON

F-CON

Health status

Fall history

Interaction

 

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

F

P-value

F

P-value

F

P-value

Female/male

15/16

15/10

13/17

14/6

      

Age (years)

64.1 ± 11.6

69.0 ± 9.2

71.9 ± 4.1

74.9 ± 8

14.98

<0.001

0.29

0.59

5.21

0.024

Height (m)

171.4 ± 8.8

172.3 ± 9.3

169.4 ± 9.2

170.4 ± 7.7

1.37

0.244

0.01

0.99

0.33

0.564

Weight (kg)

79.7 ± 14.7

82.9 ± 16.5

75.1 ± 10.5

75.3 ± 13.7

3.87

0.051

3.89

0.534

0.34

0.561

BMI (kg/m2)

27.0 ± 3.8

28.1 ± 6.5

25.8 ± 2.5

26.1 ± 3.7

3.52

0.063

0.71

0.400

0.21

0.645

Monitoring(days)

6.5 ± 0.5

6.5 ± 0.4

6.4 ± 0.7

6.5 ± 0.6

0.85

0.771

0.48

0.827

0.945

0.333

  1. Main effects for health status and fall history and their interaction are presented. Significant p-values are printed in bold
  2. NF-SS non-fallers, stroke survivors, F-SS faller, stroke survivor, NF-CON non-faller control group of older adults, F-CON faller control group of older adult