Table 1.

Participants' demographic, health, and psychological attributes and neighborhood walkability, Sydney, Australia.

	All participants (n = 315)	Control group (n = 170)	Walking group (n = 145)	p-Value
Male (%)	26.9	26.5	27.6	0.824
Age ≥ 75 yearsa	35.4	33.7	37.2	0.521
Non-English speaking background (%)	5.1	5.9	4.1	0.482
Still employed (%)b	14.4	16.5	12.0	0.260
Post high-school education (%)b	36.9	37.0	36.6	0.991
Living alone (%)	42.0	41.8	42.2	0.952
Mobility status (walking before needing a rest) < 30 min (%)	37.1	37.6	63.4	0.841
Self-rated health (%)
– Excellent or very good	48.0	44.1	52.4
– Good	40.6	44.7	35.9	0.068
– Fair or poor	11.4	11.2	11.7
Falls history (past 12 months)c
– At least one fall (%)	23.1	23.0	23.2	0.978
– Recurrent fallers (%)	11.3	13.2	9.0	0.241
– Had injurious fall	7.0	5.9	8.3	0.414
Self-rating of risk of falling
Moderate or high (%)	29.4	33.5	25.1	0.071
Fear of falling, score (16 items)c
– Mean (SD) score out of 64d	20.4 (4.7)	21.1 (5.0)	20.4 (4.2)	0.257
Fear of fallingc
– High concern (% upper quartile)	25.7	26.5	24.8	0.520
Efficacy for duration of brisk walk
Confident/very confident walking 30 min briskly	32.0	28.2	36.5	0.115
Neighborhood walkability e
– Low (% lower tertile < 36 points)	31.9	33.7	29.7	0.440
Pedestrian-oriented neighborhoode
– Low (% lower quartile < 13 points)	27.6	27.6	27.6	0.990
% strongly disagree or disagreed to statement e
1. Many places to go within easy walking distance	26.4	28.8	23.4	0.280
2. It is easy to walk to a public transport stop	10.5	10.6	10.3	0.944
3. There are footpaths on most of the streets	18.4	17.6	19.3	0.704
4. There are crosswalks and pedestrian signals	23.5	22.3	24.8	0.606
5. The streets in my neighborhood are not hilly	13.0	15.3	10.3	0.193
6. Walkers in my neighborhood can be easily seen	18.7	19.4	17.9	0.737
7. There is lots of greenery around my local area	7.3	9.4	4.8	0.119
8. There are many interesting things to look at	11.7	12.9	10.3	0.476
9. There is not much traffic along nearby streets	22.5	26.5	17.9	0.071
10. My local areas has … parks, walking trails	14.0	13.5	14.5	0.808
11. Crime rate in my neighborhood is not a problem	8.0	8.2	7.6	0.832

^aDue to 7 missing date of birth % from n = 308.

^bDue to 3 missing % of n = 312.

^cDue to 5 missing on number of falls and FOF n = 310.

^dThe lower the score the better.

^eDue to one missing neighborhood score and % were calculated from n = 314.