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. 2023 Sep 9;11(1):69–81. doi: 10.1093/nop/npad055

Table 1.

Characteristics of Participants Depending on the Delay from the End of Radiotherapy.

Delay from end of radiotherapy
(Number of participants)
<2y
(n = 9)
2–5y (n = 10) >5 y (n = 13) P-value
Participant characteristics
Age at baseline assessment (years)
.007
Mean 9.72 10.65 13.65
Standard deviation 1.38 2.87 2.82
Range 7.5–11.8 7.49–17.0 9.0–16.9
Sex (male) 5 (55.6%) 4 (40.0%) 9 (69.2%) .386
Handedness (right) 7 (100%) 9 (90%) 12 (92%) .713
Number of years of education—Mother
.241
Mean 13.8 16.2 15.0
Standard deviation 1.92 2.49 2.16
Range 12–17 14–20 12–18
Number of years of education—Father
.238
Mean 15.6 16.6 13.57
Standard deviation 2.70 2.07 2.64
Range 11–18 15–20 10–17
Tumor and treatment
Age at diagnosis
.180
Mean 7.18 6.30 5.44
Standard deviation 2.72 1.99 2.22
Range 2.25–10.67 3.0–9.17 1.92–9.33
Tumor type
.237
Medulloblastoma 7 7 6
Ependymoma 2 1 3
High Grade Glioma 0 0 2
Germ cell tumor 0 1 1
Pineoblastoma 0 1 0
Sarcoma 0 0 1
Tumor location
.058
Infratentorial 9 8 8
Supratentorial 0 1 5
Chemotherapy 8 9 11 .920
Hydrocephalus
.631
With no treatment 3 1 6
Requiring CSF diversion 3 6 3
Radiation type
.490
Focal 1 2 6
Cranio-spinal 23.4 Gy
Cranio-spinal 36.0 Gy
2
5
2
5
2
5
Number of surgeries
.853
1 surgery 6 6 8
2 surgeries 1 2 5
3 surgeries 1 1 0
Relapse 2 1 1
Exercise level before training
Exercise activity before trial
.509
Everyday 1 1 0
More than 3 times a week 2 2 5
Less than 3 times a week 2 1 4
Sedentary 0 3 0
BMI (z-score)
.095
Mean −0.164 0.885 0.929
Standard deviation 1.23 1.01 0.868
Range −2.07 to 1.69 −1.09 to 2.24 −0.290 to .56
Intervention
Intervention or control group
.273
Intervention 3 7 6
Control 6 3 7
Group training or combined training
.810
Group training 2 5 5
Combined training 4 5 7