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. 2017 Mar 23;5:54. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00054

Table 1.

Baseline demographics and comparisons between non-completers and completers at 6 months.

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



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.