Table 1. Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of participants.
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | p | |||||||
| n | % | Mean±SD | n | % | Mean±SD | n | % | Mean±SD | ||
| Age (year) | 61.9±7.4 | 62.7±8.2 | 61±7.2 | 0.8371 | ||||||
| Body mass index (kg/m2) | 25.5±3.4 | 26.6±2.0 | 26.1±2.2 | 0.6241 | ||||||
| Stroke duration (days) | 343±285.8 | 342.5±297.1 | - | 0.9972 | ||||||
| Sex | 1.0003 | |||||||||
| Female | 4 | 40 | 4 | 40 | 8 | 40 | ||||
| Male | 6 | 60 | 6 | 60 | 12 | 60 | ||||
| Profession | 0.7214 | |||||||||
| Housewife | 3 | 30 | 4 | 40 | 6 | 30 | ||||
| Retired | 3 | 30 | 4 | 40 | 10 | 50 | ||||
| Working | 4 | 40 | 2 | 20 | 4 | 20 | ||||
| Education status | 0.5894 | |||||||||
| Primary education | 7 | 70 | 6 | 60 | 9 | 45 | ||||
| Secondary education | 3 | 30 | 3 | 30 | 10 | 50 | ||||
| University | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Hemiplegic side | 1.0005 | |||||||||
| Right | 4 | 40 | 5 | 50 | - | - | ||||
| Left | 6 | 60 | 5 | 50 | - | - | ||||
| Dominant side | 0.2743 | |||||||||
| Right | 10 | 100 | 9 | 90 | 15 | 75 | ||||
| Left | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 25 | ||||
| Stroke type | 1.0005 | |||||||||
| Ischemic | 10 | 100 | 9 | 90 | - | - | ||||
| Hemorrhagic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | - | - | ||||
| SD: Standard deviation; 1 One-way ANOVA test; 2 Student t test; 3 Fisher Freeman Halton test; 4 Chi-square test; 5 Fisher exact test. | ||||||||||