Table 4.
Effect of medication during different stepping condition (n=19).
Variable | Group | self-initiated | cued | compensatory | Medication effect | Interaction effect | ||
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F | p-value | F | p-value | |||||
ML size of APA (mm) | PD Off | 18.1 (7.0) | 26.8 (6.9) | 7.3 (6.7) | 1.63 | 0.219 | 1.11 | 0.320 |
PD On | 21.0 (9.2) | 30.7 (10.8) | 6.3 (4.3) | |||||
step length (m) | PD Off | 0.49 (0.09) | 0.49 (0.10) | 0.23 (0.04) | 4.9 | 0.04 | 0.22 | 0.759 |
PD On | 0.52 (0.11) | 0.51 (0.12) | 0.24 (0.07) | |||||
step velocity (m/s) | PD Off | 1.07 (0.15) | 1.17 (0.14) | 1.01 (0.02) | 1.96 | 0.179 | 0.02 | 0.957 |
PD On | 1.09 (0.19) | 1.12 (0.20) | 1.04 (0.19) | |||||
step duration (s) | PD Off | 0.47 (0.04) | 0.41 (0.05) | 0.22 (0.03) | 1.33 | 0.263 | 0.63 | 0.499 |
PD On | 0.47 (0.06) | 0.42 (0.06) | 0.24 (0.05) |