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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Suitability of visual cues for freezing of gait in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease: a case–control pilot study

 

Total

(n = 10)

Better response group

(n = 5)

Poorer response group

(n = 5)

Between group difference

p-value, effect size r

Sex, male / female

9 / 1

4 / 1

5 / 0

1.000

Age

73.50 (72.00, 80.00)

72.00 (70.50, 84.00)

74.00 (73.00, 77.50)

0.310

Disease duration, years

4.50 (2.00, 6.25)

4.00 (2.25, 7.50)

5.00 (2.00, 7.50)

0.841

HY stage

3.00 (3.00, 3.00)

3.00 (2.50, 3.00)

3.00 (3.00, 3.00)

0.690

UPDRS-III

36.00 (14.00, 49.75)

15.00 (11.00, 39.00)

45.00 (31.00, 62.50)

0.095

NFOGQ

26.50 (21.75, 28.00)

22.00 (17.50, 24.50)

28.00 (27.50, 28.00)

0.008, − 0.852*

K-MMSE

26.50 (24.00, 28.00)

28.00 (24.50, 29.00)

26.00 (23.50, 27.50)

0.310

RRO

0.33 (0.19, 0.69)

0.67 (0.50, 0.83)

0.22 (0.06, 0.28)

0.008, − 0.800*

RRD

0.19 (-0.08, 0.48)

0.48 (0.38, 0.54)

−0.06 (-0.15, 0.02)

0.008, − 0.826*

RRP, %

4.95 (-10.13, 15.40)

15.38 (9.43, 20.09)

−8.36 (-15.47, 2.54)

0.008, -0.826*

  1. Data are presented as median (25th, 75th percentiles), or number. HY Hoehn & Yahr, UPDRS-III part III total score of the Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, NFOGQ New Freezing Of Gait Questionnaire, K-MMSE Korean version of Mini-Mental Status Examination, RRO reduction rate of occurrence, RRD reduction rate of mean duration, RRP reduction rate of FOG proportion in the total gait cycles.
  2. *Significant difference with Mann–Whitney U-test.