Table 5.
Comparisons by group of the personal characteristics of participants at baseline.
| Cognitive training | No cognitive training | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No physical activity (n = 33) | Physical activity (n = 29) | No physical activity (n = 29) | Physical activity (n = 31) | |||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | F(3, 120) | p | |
| CHARACTERISTICS | ||||||||||
| Age in years | 80 | 5.43 | 79 | 5.49 | 81 | 5.25 | 79 | 5.76 | 0.827 | 0.482 |
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | χ2 | p | |
| GENDER | ||||||||||
| Female | 23 | 69.7 | 20 | 69 | 19 | 65.5 | 22 | 71 | 0.226 | 0.973 |
| EDUCATION | ||||||||||
| Some college and above | 26 | 78.8 | 17 | 58.6 | 23 | 79.3 | 28 | 90.3 | 8.798 | 0.032* |
| HEALTH | ||||||||||
| Very good | 19 | 57.6 | 18 | 62.1 | 10 | 34.5 | 18 | 58.1 | 11.321 | 0.079 |
| Good | 11 | 33.3 | 11 | 37.9 | 15 | 51.7 | 13 | 41.9 | ||
| Poor | 3 | 9.1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13.8 | 0 | 0 | ||
| COMPUTER USE | ||||||||||
| Very often | 14 | 42.4 | 13 | 44.8 | 9 | 31 | 13 | 41.9 | 6.697 | 0.669 |
| Often | 11 | 31.4 | 7 | 24.1 | 8 | 27.6 | 9 | 29.0 | ||
| Seldom | 2 | 6.1 | 5 | 17.2 | 4 | 13.8 | 6 | 19.4 | ||
| Never | 6 | 18.2 | 4 | 13.8 | 8 | 27.6 | 3 | 9.7 | ||
| COLOR BLINDNESS | ||||||||||
| None | 32 | 97.0 | 28 | 96.6 | 25 | 86.2 | 30 | 96.8 | 4.569 | 0.206 |
| DOMINANT HAND | ||||||||||
| Right hand | 30 | 90.9 | 27 | 93.1 | 27 | 93.1 | 31 | 100 | 2.717 | 0.437 |
*
p significant at the 0.05 level.