Table 1.
Baseline | Baseline (n = 239) | Baseline non-completers (n = 177, 74.1%) | Completers (n = 62, 25.9%) | Test statistic X2 or Fisher’s exact test or t test | p value for X2 or Fisher’s exact test or t test | ||||
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Total n | n or mean | % or SD | n or mean | % or SD | n or mean | % or SD | |||
Age | 239 | 79.82 | 11.8 | 80.53 | 11.59 | 77.79 | 12.13 | 1.58 | 0.12 |
Sex | 239 | 0.96 | 0.33 | ||||||
Male | 73 | 30.5 | 51 | 28.8 | 22 | 35.5 | |||
Female | 166 | 69.5 | 126 | 71.2 | 40 | 64.5 | |||
Hispanic | 239 | N/Aa | 0.68 | ||||||
No | 231 | 96.7 | 170 | 96.1 | 61 | 98.4 | |||
Yes | 8 | 3.4 | 7 | 4.0 | 1 | 1.6 | |||
Race | 239 | N/Aa | 0.66 | ||||||
White | 221 | 92.5 | 161 | 91.0 | 60 | 96.8 | |||
Black or African-American | 5 | 2.1 | 4 | 2.3 | 1 | 1.6 | |||
Asian | 2 | 0.8 | 2 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.0 | |||
Others | 11 | 4.6 | 10 | 5.7 | 1 | 1.6 | |||
Fear of falling | 203 | 0.10 | 0.75 | ||||||
No | 26 | 12.8 | 19 | 13.3 | 7 | 11.7 | |||
Yes | 177 | 87.2 | 124 | 86.7 | 53 | 88.3 | |||
Timed Up and Go (TUG) | 215 | 26.2 | 22.7 | ||||||
Low risk (enrollment TUG time <12 s) | 29 | 13.5 | 22 | 75.9 | 7 | 24.1 | 0.18 | 0.67 | |
High risk (enrollment TUG time ≥12 s) | 186 | 86.5 | 134 | 72.0 | 52 | 28.0 | |||
Chair stand | 215 | 6.0 | 4.5 | ||||||
Low risk (>average scores) | 66 | 30.8 | 54 | 81.8 | 12 | 18.2 | 4.59 | 0.03 | |
High risk (≤average scores) | 148 | 69.2 | 100 | 67.6 | 48 | 32.4 | |||
Fall in past year | 208 | 0.0006 | 0.98 | ||||||
No | 80 | 38.5 | 57 | 38.5 | 23 | 38.3 | |||
Yes | 128 | 61.5 | 91 | 61.5 | 37 | 61.7 | |||
# of falls in past year | 208 | 1.75 | 1.9 | 1.71 | 1.9 | 1.83 | 1.9 | −0.43 | 0.67 |
# of falls resulting in injuries | 205 | 0.59 | 1.0 | 0.58 | 1.0 | 0.62 | 1.1 | −0.24 | 0.81 |
# of falls resulting in ED visits | 204 | 0.26 | 0.6 | 0.23 | 0.6 | 0.33 | 0.6 | −1.10 | 0.27 |
# of falls resulting in hospitalization | 205 | 0.18 | 0.6 | 0.13 | 0.5 | 0.28 | 0.6 | −1.79 | 0.08 |
# of weeks of physical therapy (PT) prior to Otago | 197 | 1.43 | 3.0 | 1.75 | 3.2 | 0.66 | 2.3 | 2.37 | 0.02 |
# PT visits prior to Otago | 197 | 2.72 | 6.0 | 3.42 | 6.4 | 1.07 | 4.4 | 2.57 | 0.01 |
aFisher’s exact test.