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. 2011 Nov 21;1(2):e000225. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000225

Table 1.

Means and SDs (in parentheses) of selected participant characteristics and the five secondary outcome neuropsychological tests at randomisation by training group status, N=681

Variable Overall N=681 Road Tour on-site N=154 Road Tour on-site with future boosters N=148 Attention control on-site N=188 Road Tour at-home N=191
Personal characteristics
 Age (years) 61.9 (8.2) 61.4 (8.1) 62.5 (8.2) 61.8 (8.7) 61.9 (7.9)
 Men (%) 37.3 (0.5) 37.2 (0.5) 32.5 (0.5) 42.0 (0.5) 36.7 (0.5)
 Married (%) 69.9 (0.5) 73.0 (0.5) 61.0 (0.5) 73.4 (0.4) 71.2 (0.5)
 Single (%) 11.2 (0.3) 10.1 (0.3) 14.9 (0.4) 8.0 (0.3) 12.0 (0.3)
 Working (%) 54.5 (0.5) 56.8 (0.5) 53.9 (0.5) 50.0 (0.5) 57.6 (0.6)
 Retired (%) 35.5 (0.4) 35.1 (0.5) 36.4 (0.4) 34.2 (0.5) 34.6 (0.3)
 Income ≤ $35K (%) 28.3 (0.5) 24.3 (0.4) 36.4 (0.5) 27.7 (0.5) 25.7 (0.4)
 Income ≥ $75K (%) 46.6 (0.5) 45.3 (0.5) 41.6 (0.4) 47.3 (0.5) 50.8 (0.5)
 Self-rated health (5=best 1=worst) 3.8 (0.9) 3.8 (0.9) 3.8 (0.8) 3.7 (0.9) 3.9 (0.8)
 One-year change in self-rated health (5=best, 1=worst) 3.2 (0.8) 3.3 (0.8) 3.3 (0.8) 3.2 (0.8) 3.3 (0.7)
Training time
 Minutes of training 469 (217) 450 (199) 488 (151) 535 (154) 404 (295)
Neuropsychological tests
 SDMT (number of correct) 50.5 (9.4) 51.8 (9.0) 50.5 (9.5) 48.7 (9.3) 51.1 (9.6)
 Trails A (sec) 41.9 (13.3) 40.9 (10.9) 39.8 (12.3) 45.0 (16.3) 41.2 (12.0)
 Trails B (sec) 66.9 (27.2) 63.8 (30.8) 65.8 (23.9) 71.8 (30.3) 65.2 (22.1)
 COWAT composite (number of words) 42.0 (11.9) 42.4 (11.0) 41.9 (12.7) 40.5 (11.5) 43.2 (12.4)
 DVT errors (n) 8.1 (8.2) 7.5 (9.6) 9.0 (7.7) 7.9 (7.6) 8.0 (7.8)
 DVT time (s) 377.0 (84.1) 369.0 (82.2) 374.8 (83.7) 387.9 (86.5) 374.5 (83.1)
Stroop word (n) 70.4 (13.1) 71.2 (13.6) 71.8 (13.5) 68.1 (12.8) 71.1 (12.4)
 Stroop colour (n) 97.8 (17.6) 100.3 (17.3) 96.5 (18.7) 95.3 (17.8) 99.3 (16.5)
 Stroop colour-word (n) 38.1 (9.0) 38.7 (9.5) 38.0 (8.7) 37.1 (9.1) 38.6 (8.9)

COWAT, Controlled Oral Word Association Test; DVT, Digit Vigilance Test; SDMT, Symbol Digit Modalities Test.