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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2017 Feb 28;98(7):1316–1324.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2017.01.023

Table 2.

Comparison of step initiation between subjects with PD (Med Off, n=19) and healthy control (n=12) in three conditions.

Variable Group Self-initiated Cued Compensatory Group effect Interaction effect
F p-value F p-value
ML size of APA (mm) PD 18.1 (7.0)ˆ 26.8 (7.1)ˆ 7.3 (6.7)ˆ 0.00 0.983 5.91 0.009*
HC 19.8 (7.0)ˆ 34.4 (8.4)ˆ 3.0 (2.6)ˆ
Step length (m) PD 0.50 (0.09) 0.49 (0.10) 0.23 (0.04) 5.63 0.025 2.32 0.127
HC 0.51 (0.08) 0.56 (0.09) 0.32 (0.11)
Step velocity (m/sec) PD 1.07 (0.15)+ 1.17 (0.12)+,ˆ 1.01 (0.11)#,ˆ 9.50 0.004* 9.10 0.001*
HC 1.09 (0.13) 1.24 (0.14) 1.28 (0.21)#
Step duration (sec) PD 0.47 (0.04) 0.41 (0.05) 0.22 (0.03) 3.25 0.082 0.543 0.584
HC 0.48 (0.06) 0.45 (0.08) 0.24 (0.05)
*

Note. significantly different (p<0.0125 (Bonferroni adjusted)).

#

significantly different (across groups; p<0.01) in post-hoc comparison (independent samples T-Test).

ˆ

and

+

significantly different (across two conditions within one group; p<0.001) in post-hoc comparison (paired samples T-Test).