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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 24;80(1):74–78. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.136432

Table 4.

Descriptive results for individual sensory organisation tests of dynamic posturography

Sensory condition Change in anxiety during posturography (N=65)
SMD (N=69)
Correlation with continuous variable
Abnormality rate by anxiety response category
Correlation with continuous variable
Abnormality rate by SMD category
Decrease in anxiety
Increase in anxiety
SMD-1<6,
SMD-1⩾6
r* n (%) n (%) r* n (%) n (%)
Condition I 0 (0.0) 1 (3.3) 0 (0.0)   1 (3.6)
Condition II 0 (0.0) 2 (6.7) 0 (0.0)   2 (7.1)
Condition III 0.30 1 (2.2) 5 (16.7) 0.31 1 (2.4)   5 (17.9)
Condition IV 0.24 4 (11.4) 9 (30.0) 0.48 3 (7.3) 10 (35.7)
Condition V 0.23 2 (5.7) 7 (23.3) 0.11 4 (9.8)   6 (21.4)
Condition VI 0.40 2 (5.7) 8 (26.7) 0.10 5 (12.2)   6 (21.4)
*

Point biserial correlation between continuous variables (ie, anxiety response and SMD), and binary “dependent” variable (ie, normal vs abnormal posturography result). SMD, space and motion discomfort.