Table 1.
Demographics of study population at T-0, divided in language regions German-speaking (D-CH) and French-speaking (F-CH) part of Switzerland. The total sum per study group is highlighted in bold
| Intervention group (N = 218) | Control group (N = 232) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-CH (n = 146) | F-CH (n = 72) | Sum | D-CH (n = 160) | F-CH (n = 72) | Sum | pValue | |||||||
| Women (n/%) | 76 | 52.1 | 42 | 58.3 | 118 | 54.1 | 78 | 48.8 | 47 | 65.3 | 125 | 53.9 | 0.958 |
| Living alone (n/%) | 53 | 36.3 | 25 | 34.7 | 78 | 36.5 | 42 | 26.3 | 31 | 43.1 | 73 | 31.9 | 0.310 |
| Smoker (n/%) | 20 | 13.7 | 19 | 26.4 | 39 | 18.5 | 27 | 16.9 | 7 | 9.7 | 34 | 15.0 | 0.335 |
| Age in years (Mean/SD) | 66.4 | 11.38 | 68.7 | 11.73 | 67.2 | 11.52 | 67.1 | 10.80 | 67.2 | 13.18 | 67.1 | 11.56 | 0.845 |
| Dash-4 score (Mean/SD) | 4.7 | 1.72 | 5.3 | 2.43 | 4.9 | 2.01 | 4.7 | 1.48 | 5.3 | 2.40 | 4.9 | 1.83 | 0.323 |