. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 30.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013 Apr 16;61(5):10.1111/jgs.12211. doi: 10.1111/jgs.12211

Table 1.

Participant characteristics by intervention arm (WEBS: walking, endurance, balance strength training; TC: timing and coordination training).

	WEBS group	TC group	P value / chi-square
N	21	23
Age, years	78 ± 5	76 ± 6	0.2
Female, n (%)	11 (55%)	19 (82%)	0.1
Black, n (%)	2 (10%)	4 (17%)	0.7
Comorbidities, Index (mean ± (SD))	2 ± 1	3 ± 1	0.2
GDS, 0 to 15 (mean ± (SD))	1.9 ± 1.4	1.4 ± 1.3	0.6
MMSE, 0 to 30 (mean ± (SD))	29 ± 1	29 ± 1	0.3
DSST, (number correct, mean ± (SD))	45 ± 8	45 ± 11	0.8
Trails B time, (sec, mean ± (SD))	127 ± 56	129 ± 73	0.9
SPPB, 0 to 12, mean ± (SD))	8 ± 2	9 ± 2	0.3
Pre-intervention gait speed (m/sec, mean ± (SD))	0.81 ± 0.12	0.87 + 0.12	0.1
Post-intervention gait speed (m/sec, mean ± (SD))	0.96 ± 0.2	1.08 ± 0.13	0.02

MMSE: Mini-mental status Examination, range 0 to 30²⁷; DSST: Digit Symbol Substitution Test score⁴⁰; SPPB: Short Physical Performance Battery, range 0 to 12³⁹; GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale, range 0 to 30⁴³.