Table 4.
Demographic and baseline characteristics of participants.
| Participant | Age (years) | Gender | Time since stroke (months) | Side of hemiplegia | Fugl-Meyer | MoCA | Stroop test | Shipley | GDS | Education (years) | 6 min walk (m) | Assistive device |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 72 | M | 12 | L | 24 | 27 | 39 | 32 | 3 | 16 | 243.2 | None |
| 2 | 74 | M | 11 | R | 25 | 25 | 49 | 31 | 3 | 16 | 230.9 | Cane |
| 3 | 86 | M | 4.5 | L | 26 | 23 | NT | 33 | 3 | 16 | 198.7 | Cane |
| 4 | 42 | M | 11 | L | 25 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 8 | 12 | 318.9 | None |
| 5 | 76 | M | 8.5 | L | 29 | 28 | 30 | 37 | 0 | 22 | 373.8 | None |
| 6 | 60 | M | 9.3 | L | 27 | 28 | 22 | 33 | 3 | 18 | 358.8 | Cane |
| 7 | 86 | M | 3 | R | 26 | 27 | 45 | 37 | 2 | 22 | 324.5 | None |
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| Mean | 70.9 | 8.5 | 26.0 | 26.3 | 35.2 | 32.9 | 3.1 | 17.4 | 292.7 | |||
| SD | 15.5 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 10.8 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 68.0 | |||
Fugl-Meyer: Fugl-Meyer motor assessment for lower extremity (max. 34); MoCA: montreal cognitive assessment (maximum score 30); Stroop test: Stroop color-word interference score (color-word score minus color score); Shipley: Shipley vocabulary test (max. 40); GDS: geriatric depression scale (score > 5 indicates depression); NT: not tested.